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You are here: Home / Obama’s Secret ’08 Platform- Court Ordered Reacharounds

Obama’s Secret ’08 Platform- Court Ordered Reacharounds

by John Cole|  April 11, 20089:10 am| 69 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To

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Via Sadly, No!, this gem from John Hawkins:

In 2004, you said that you opposed the Defense of Marriage Act, which is designed to keep gay marriage from being imposed on the country by judicial fiat.

Thank GOD for DOMA, or I might have had a gay marriage imposed on me by activist judges, and I just hate having gay anal sex.

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  1. 1.

    Bedlam

    April 11, 2008 at 9:15 am

    What is this Kool-Aid thing this guy, and all Hillarites quote left right and bloody centre ??
    I must have missed where that started.
    thanks.

  2. 2.

    Conservatively Liberal

    April 11, 2008 at 9:17 am

    Is it that you hate the thought of “gay anal sex”, or is it as you state? Better be careful there John, you are giving the wingnuts ammo that you may not want to! ;)

  3. 3.

    Michael D.

    April 11, 2008 at 9:18 am

    and I just hate having gay anal sex.

    Dude! I had you pegged as a total sub bottom boy!

  4. 4.

    cleek

    April 11, 2008 at 9:19 am

    I just hate having gay anal sex

    the straight kind can be OK, though.

  5. 5.

    Xenos

    April 11, 2008 at 9:21 am

    I just hate having gay anal sex.

    How do you know? And can I not conclude by your choice of modifiers that you do not object to straight anal sex? How about dog-on-man, or man-on dog? Whichever way, too much information here.

  6. 6.

    Bedlam

    April 11, 2008 at 9:22 am

    P.S. Its driving me mad reading that meaningless defence of McCains ‘100 years’ quote.
    If its clear he meant 100 years if no soldier is being killed then what will he do when the soldiers ARE being killed ??
    Stay there. thats what. and stay and stay, EVEN though soldiers are dying.
    Sigh.

  7. 7.

    Jen

    April 11, 2008 at 9:22 am

    the straight kind can be OK, though.

    per bootlegger, the ladies of the evening in Thailand beg to differ.

    I am happy for DOMA because I don’t really care for flannel or men’s jeans all that much.

  8. 8.

    Jake

    April 11, 2008 at 9:25 am

    Townhall does appear to have no problem attracting teh stupid.

  9. 9.

    bootlegger

    April 11, 2008 at 9:27 am

    In a similar kind of confusion the wingnuts believed that they “outlawed” same-sex marriages, when in fact all they did was deny those couples the civil status of marriage. Same-sex couples can still get “married” by having a ceremony and setting up household and these laws say nothing about that.

    No marriage has ever been “defended” by this outrageous law and this is one instances where I can’t wait for the next generation’s influence to get here sooner rather than late (they support same-sex marriages by a large majority).

  10. 10.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 11, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Lack-wit that I am, I put gay marriage up there with all of the other “sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids” bullshit that the Right gins up to deflect attention from the fact that they possess neither morality nor principles.

  11. 11.

    Krista

    April 11, 2008 at 9:36 am

    No marriage has ever been “defended” by this outrageous law

    Yeah, that entire concept really burns my ass. If your marriage is so damn fragile that it might be destroyed by the idea of gays being legally allowed to marry, then guess what? Your marriage is shite.

    These asshats are using the exact same arguments that were used to argue against people of different races marrying. They were wrong then, and they’re wrong now.

  12. 12.

    cleek

    April 11, 2008 at 9:38 am

    per bootlegger, the ladies of the evening in Thailand beg to differ.

    still more proof that none of my college girlfriends were Thai hookers!

    take that, doubters!

  13. 13.

    Davis X. Machina

    April 11, 2008 at 9:55 am

    They’re wheeling this one out in Maine again. The Christian Civic League’s trying for a slot on the ballot in ’09.

    In an off year, with no Federal races, they’re hoping for a low turnout, with a highly motivated majority-of-a-minority doing what couldn’t be done in an even-numbered year.

    “PROPOSED WORDING: “Do you want to protect traditional marriage and eliminate special rights in Maine?”

    It’s like being trapped in a cage of parrots: “Aaaawk! Special rights! Special rights!”

    How an anti-discrimination enactment, which eliminates disparate treatment, somehow confers disparate treatment, has always mystified me.

  14. 14.

    Jen

    April 11, 2008 at 9:55 am

    The case which overturned anti-miscegenation laws was Loving v. Virginia. The trial court upheld Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages, saying:

    Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

    (Some kinda judicial fiat, huh?)

    So riddle me this, why did God create San Francisco?!

  15. 15.

    Gregory

    April 11, 2008 at 9:57 am

    These asshats are using the exact same arguments that were used to argue against people of different races marrying.

    Word.

  16. 16.

    jake

    April 11, 2008 at 10:00 am

    I haven’t been able to look, are the brown squirts claiming that Obama is a gay married mixed race muslim christian angry negro?

    So riddle me this, why did God create San Francisco?!

    As bait. One day we’ll all be lured out there for a big gay shindig and then: SMITE!

  17. 17.

    Schlagle

    April 11, 2008 at 10:01 am

    Well, if you’ll read the fine print of the DOMA you would notice that it also stipulates who is the pitcher and who is the catcher. At least that’s what a conservative told me.

  18. 18.

    Jake

    April 11, 2008 at 10:02 am

    John, this issue would seem post-worthy:

    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-streetmoney11apr11,0,6553901.story

  19. 19.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 11, 2008 at 10:05 am

    I haven’t been able to look, are the brown squirts claiming that Obama is a gay married mixed race muslim christian angry negro?

    Also a commie. That some of these categories may be mutually exclusive doesn’t seem to trouble them.

  20. 20.

    jrg

    April 11, 2008 at 10:10 am

    The right wing is so moronic.

    First of all, is McCain running on the DOMA? No, so what difference does it make? Second, we have thousands of military families torn apart right now, and a 50% divorce rate in the general population – neither of these systemic problems have anything to do with “teh gays”. Third, right wingers will keep hating on gays regardless of DOMA (gays caused 9/11, anyone?).

    Fourth, and finally, 20 or 30 years from now, Republicans will be saying exactly what they say now about civil rights – they’ll just make shit up and re-write history, saying they were for gay rights all along.

    How many trillions more tax dollars are we going to waste because the morons on the right cannot get past their self-imposed victimhood and cultural jihads? Are these people so useless to the modern world that this is the only way they feel they can remain relevant?

    Can we please start cutting off tax dollars to these stupid backwoods hillbillies? Maybe if we stopped subsidizing these fools with federal pork, they would have something to complain about other than “San Francisco values”.

  21. 21.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 11, 2008 at 10:16 am

    Fourth, and finally, 20 or 30 years from now, Republicans will be saying exactly what they say now about civil rights – they’ll just make shit up and re-write history, saying they were for gay rights all along.

    Larry Craig will be canonized. “This heroic champion of gay rights suffered for his cause.”

  22. 22.

    Zifnab

    April 11, 2008 at 10:17 am

    Wait, wait, wait. If Obama is supporting wild gay anal sex, will he be attracting the Republican vote or discouraging it? Between all the foot-taping coming from Minnesota and my email getting clogged with Mark Foley chat invitations, it’s really hard to see the forest for the trees?

    Is Obama actually putting marriages at risk, or is he just trying to be bipartisan?

  23. 23.

    Fred X. Quimby

    April 11, 2008 at 10:20 am

    I just hate having gay anal sex.

    I thought that’s where “Balloon Juice” came from…

  24. 24.

    Cris

    April 11, 2008 at 10:21 am

    No marriage has ever been “defended” by this outrageous law

    Maybe the state can only issue so many marriage licenses each wedding season. They’re afraid the homos will snatch up all the bull tags.

  25. 25.

    joe

    April 11, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Senator Osama, do you believe your policy for forcing nuns to perform vivisections on kittehs stolen from virginal white women, who your scary black pastor taught you to hate with the fury of a thousand exploding suns, is the best way to unite America?

  26. 26.

    b. hussein canuckistani

    April 11, 2008 at 10:28 am

    You’re lucky you don’t live in Canada, where we are routinely gay-sodomized at sharia-approved abortion parties.
    On the plus side, we’re stoned, and it’s all legal.

    Was it a gay marriage that caused McCain to divorce his first wife for a young, hot, rich trollop? Or maybe gay marriage made him call her a “cunt”. If so, I can understand his concerns.

  27. 27.

    AkaDad

    April 11, 2008 at 10:34 am

    I just hate having gay anal sex.

    At least you tried it before knocking it…

  28. 28.

    The Other Steve

    April 11, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Not only is DOMA preventing forced gay marriage, but it is also preventing me from getting married to an ugly woman named Hilda.

    I give it two thumbs up.

  29. 29.

    The Other Steve

    April 11, 2008 at 10:38 am

    It just dawned on me, that DOMA has also been important in preventing me from marrying a goat.

  30. 30.

    Tsulagi

    April 11, 2008 at 10:39 am

    I haven’t been able to look, are the brown squirts claiming that Obama is a gay married mixed race muslim christian angry negro?

    Also a commie. That some of these categories may be mutually exclusive doesn’t seem to trouble them.

    Don’t forget killing white babies.

  31. 31.

    Billy K

    April 11, 2008 at 10:46 am

    and I just hate having gay anal sex.

    What about other types of gay sex? Your silence on this matter is deafening.

  32. 32.

    shortstop

    April 11, 2008 at 10:48 am

    Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red

    Malay? WTF?

  33. 33.

    Davebo

    April 11, 2008 at 10:51 am

    I must admit to never having tried gay anal sex.

    However, since the worst sex I’ve had was freaking great, I’ll reserve judgement.

  34. 34.

    Jen

    April 11, 2008 at 10:52 am

    Malay? WTF?

    I know! You’d think they’d be a subset of yellow. Maybe the good judge had a thing for a particular, forbidden lady.

  35. 35.

    Krista

    April 11, 2008 at 10:53 am

    You’re lucky you don’t live in Canada, where we are routinely gay-sodomized at sharia-approved abortion parties.
    On the plus side, we’re stoned, and it’s all legal.

    I meant to ask you if you wanted me to bring the potato salad again this year. You can bring the lube.

  36. 36.

    shortstop

    April 11, 2008 at 10:53 am

    How an anti-discrimination enactment, which eliminates disparate treatment, somehow confers disparate treatment, has always mystified me.

    It’s the Zero-Sum Power, Justice and Fairness mindset so popular among our winger friends. Just as every time a black guy or a woman gets a good job, a white man has been unfairly treated, allowing teh gays to marry oppresses straights by robbing us of our rightfully unique marital options.

  37. 37.

    Xenos

    April 11, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Malay=Micronesion, I think. This is a racist judge from 1950s Virginia, so whatever. I am just disappointed he did not mention the Semites Afro-Asiatics and the Eskimos Inuit.

  38. 38.

    shortstop

    April 11, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Maybe the good judge had a thing for a particular, forbidden lady.

    Or he once had a housekeeper from Kuala Lumpur, and while she wasn’t like a white lady, she was pretty cool, so she gets her own race and continent. It’s the least he can do for someone who was sheer magic in the kitchen.

  39. 39.

    joe

    April 11, 2008 at 10:57 am

    I haven’t been able to look, are the brown squirts claiming that Obama is a gay married mixed race muslim christian angry negro?

    The very first question is why he claims to be black, when he’s really and ARAB. Yep.

    Apparently, the Wright thing was so devestating that they, um, don’t want people thinking of him as black.

  40. 40.

    Walker

    April 11, 2008 at 10:58 am

    What is this Kool-Aid thing this guy, and all Hillarites quote left right and bloody centre ??
    I must have missed where that started.
    thanks.

    You don’t know the “drinking the Kool-Aid” reference? This is ancient; it is not an internet thing. It suggests your supporters are a cult willing to go to their death.

  41. 41.

    Davis X. Machina

    April 11, 2008 at 11:16 am

    Malay = Philipino. The judge was probably appointed in the time of Governor-General Taft.

  42. 42.

    b. hussein canuckistani

    April 11, 2008 at 11:17 am

    I meant to ask you if you wanted me to bring the potato salad again this year. You can bring the lube.

    Damned right I’m bringing the lube. I’m not making that mistake again.
    Maybe you could bring the jello salad you brought when we trashed the American Consulate and swore allegiance to Islamocommunism and America Hatred. Or Timbits.

    What are you up to next Friday, John? Wanna visit Canada?

  43. 43.

    jake

    April 11, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Fourth, and finally, 20 or 30 years from now, Republicans will be saying exactly what they say now about civil rights – they’ll just make shit up and re-write history, saying they were for gay rights all along.

    If I ever see a GOP ad claiming they’re the party of Stonewall my head will explode.

  44. 44.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 11, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Malay=Micronesion, I think.

    Nope, they are a Southeast Asian people, believed to have originated in Borneo and then to have moved down to occupy the Malay Peninsula.

  45. 45.

    JackieBinAZ

    April 11, 2008 at 11:21 am

    So riddle me this, why did God create San Francisco?!

    as a ballast for Provincetown

  46. 46.

    Grand Moff Texan

    April 11, 2008 at 11:23 am

    I don’t remember approving John Hawkins marriage.
    .

  47. 47.

    chopper

    April 11, 2008 at 11:25 am

    If its clear he meant 100 years if no soldier is being killed then what will he do when the soldiers ARE being killed ??

    you just have to hope and pray that it’s one of those 100-year-long wartime occupations of the middle east where no soldier ever dies. there are literally tons of examples in history of just that.

  48. 48.

    cleek

    April 11, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Nope, they are a Southeast Asian people, believed to have originated in Borneo

    Cliff Clavin: [in comparison to a Jewish bris] The original rites of passage started with the jungle tribes down there in Borneo.
    Norm Peterson: Yeah?
    Cliff Clavin: When the young jungle tribal lad was on the brink of puberty, they’d bring him forward and take out this large sharpened clam shell…
    Sam Malone: Oh, no, no, no don’t tell me…
    Cliff Clavin: …they would fill it with dip, pass it around with the hors d’oeuvres…
    Sam Malone: Oh.
    Cliff Clavin: …then they’d take these two big jagged rocks in there…
    Norm Peterson: Cliffy, Cliff, Cliff…
    Cliff Clavin: …and bang them together to call in the tribes out of the hills, you know. Then the witch doctor stepped up with this long sharpened bamboo staff…
    Sam Malone: Oh, here it comes.
    Cliff Clavin: …and shoved it into the ground, hung a flag on it and they danced around it, pretty much, until they dropped, really.
    Sam Malone: Oh, wait… When do they circumcize the kid?
    Cliff Clavin: What do you mean circumsize? There are no Jews in Borneo, you moolyak.

  49. 49.

    peach flavored shampoo

    April 11, 2008 at 11:41 am

    the straight kind can be OK, though.

    down with the brown, eh?

  50. 50.

    Punchy

    April 11, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Yeah, that entire concept really burns my ass.

    /rereads topic of post….snickers

  51. 51.

    Dennis - SGMM

    April 11, 2008 at 11:47 am

    So, does Mickey Kaus’ goat fucking threaten marriage or not?

  52. 52.

    Punchy

    April 11, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Was it a gay marriage that caused McCain to divorce his first wife for a young, hot, rich trollop? Or maybe gay marriage made him call her a “cunt”. If so, I can understand his concerns.

    I find this hard to believe. She was not hot.

  53. 53.

    Xenos

    April 11, 2008 at 11:56 am

    She was not broke.

  54. 54.

    Conservatively Liberal

    April 11, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    down with the brown, eh?

    “What can brown do for you today?” ;)

  55. 55.

    Blue Raven

    April 11, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    You don’t know the “drinking the Kool-Aid” reference? This is ancient; it is not an internet thing. It suggests your supporters are a cult willing to go to their death.

    I have long wondered whether the Flavor Aid people are grateful or annoyed that the saying has never identified their drink as the base, even though that’s what they really used.

  56. 56.

    stickler

    April 11, 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Jen:

    So riddle me this, why did God create San Francisco?!

    Well, for whatever reason He may have created San Fran, you have to keep in mind that He’s also tried to wipe it out a couple of times.

    Came pretty close in 1906, actually. They even have a memorial on the deck of the Berkeley on the spot where this guy’s wife turned into a pillar of salt. They were fleeing the city on the ferry, and damned if she didn’t turn around to look at the burning city, and BOOM! she turned into a big pile of sodium chloride.

  57. 57.

    DrDave

    April 11, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    I just hate having gay anal sex.

    I thought that’s where “Balloon Juice” came from…

    No, that’s where Santorum comes from…

  58. 58.

    CWD

    April 11, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    So, does Mickey Kaus’ goat fucking threaten marriage or not?

    I am once again forced to point out that Mikey Kaus fellates goats.
    Accuracy is important.

  59. 59.

    RSA

    April 11, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    I am happy for DOMA because I don’t really care for flannel or men’s jeans all that much.

    When I was going to school in a town that neighbors Northampton, MA, the so-called lesbian capital of the world, the identifier was “comfortable shoes”.

  60. 60.

    Z

    April 11, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Jen, embrace your flannel overloads!

    I am in the middle of planning my big Gay wedding. I tell you… destroying Western culture and undermining Christian, heterosexual marriage is so much work (not to mention expensive).

  61. 61.

    jake

    April 11, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    I am once again forced to point out that Mikey Kaus fellates goats.
    Accuracy is important.

    Especially to the goat.

  62. 62.

    Tara the anti-social social worker

    April 11, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    Remember, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ordered that EVERYONE must be gay-married!

    http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30475

  63. 63.

    Jen

    April 11, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    destroying Western culture and undermining Christian, heterosexual marriage is so much work (not to mention expensive).

    Congratulations! What sort of flowers do you get to convey that, or do you just hang O’Keeffe prints everywhere? :)

  64. 64.

    Z

    April 11, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Thanks! Actually, we have thought about O’Keefe prints!

  65. 65.

    captain obvious

    April 11, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    I just hate having gay anal sex.

    So you did have secret unstated reasons for leaving the GOP.

    You shouldn’t have come up with all those excuses about the GOP’s incompetence and irrationality. Your credibility is shot.

  66. 66.

    DougJ

    April 11, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    As much as I support the idea of court-ordered reacharounds, I have serious doubts about enforceability. Are we talking about bracelets loaded with GPS here? Do we have the technology for that kind of thing yet?

  67. 67.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    April 11, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    I just hate having gay anal sex.

    Sounds like you might not be doing it right JC. Make sure you loosen up your asshole plenty before starting. Use lots of lubrication and make sure you start out on top, straddling your partner. It will feel uncomfortable but manageable. If it’s still not enjoyable for you, don’t feel down – everyone’s not a bottom!

  68. 68.

    Bedlam

    April 14, 2008 at 4:01 am

    Thanks Walker,

    I’m a brit, we dont have Kool-Aid, and i’ve been reading about US politics for all of about 2 months.
    got a lot to learn / understand / laugh about :)

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