Joe Solmonese and HRC Make Me Sick

Had Martin Luther King subscribed to the mindset of the self-anointed leaders at HRC, the South would still be segregated and anti-black racial bigotry would continue to be the norm. I have had less than kind things to say about HRC in the past - and I regularly throw away their pleas for money - but I am now of the mindset that either HRC needs to be shut down or a coup staged to take over the leadership so that the organization acts as a civil rights organization as opposed to a simpering ass kisser for politicians that stroke certain egos by giving them "access." HRC in its current form makes me sick. It's a wonder Joe Solmonese has not suffocated since his nose is so far up Obama's ass. I am not the only one that believes Solmonese doesn't see the forest for the trees. Here's snippet of Pam Spaulding's take on his e-mail blast to supporters:

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Is HRC telling people to sit hands folded for Obama re: progress until 2017?

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In one of those "what does he really mean" moments, Joe Solmonese sent out an HRC e-blast to supporters that suggests he's willing to cut the President slack until he leaves office in 2017, after an assumed second term in office. . . . If this the message that is being telegraphed as the party line, it proves the org is definitely not in touch with the grassroots discussion out there about what the President needs to say tomorrow night.

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And cutting slack until 2017, if that's indeed the message, means yet again, that those who have the luxury to wait (they have non-discrimination measures where they live and work), don't understand the day-to-day peril working LGBTs live under in terms the vulnerability of being fired or losing the chance for employment because of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.

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Like me, Pam lives in a state where LGBT citizens have zero protections. North Carolina does not have an anti-gay marriage amendment, but otherwise its LGBT citizens are third class citizens like those of us in Virginia. You can read Solmonese's full message at Pam's site, but I think she has parsed it correctly. I am NOT willing to cut slack until 2017 and in fact, as I will address in another post, it may be a hugely perilous assumption to expect Obama to win re-election in 2012 since (1) the way things are going he may well face a nomination fight and (2) the GOP might surprise us an find a rational candidate to challenge him. The only thing Obama has delivered to date is that he's not John McCain. Beyond that, most of us are still waiting for delivery on campaign promises.