I am watching the election results trickle in live on CNN, and Clinton and Obama are neck and neck. It looks like they’ll be slogging it out all the way to August. Anyway, here is the inspiring viral video produced by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas in support of Obama. If you haven’t seen it, please take the time to watch it.

Okay, so maybe you’re a cynic, and you’re skeptical of the cult of personality surrounding Obama. How about some substance then? I’m going to get to the point, because I know you have A.D.D., and I’m including links in case you Hillary supporters think I’m being a partisan hack.

Obama is the best candidate for gay rights.
For one… he wants full repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Clinton supports repealing only half of it. [The Defense of Marriage Act is the federal law that says that (1) marriage is between a man and a woman, and (2) one state doesn't have to recognize the marriage or marriage-like union between same sex couples of another state.]

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Obama is not afraid to acknowledge gays in front of non-gay audiences
Obama has no problems bringing gays and lesbians into the dialogue in front of general audiences, and he also sticks his neck out for us in traditionally hostile environments. Clinton tends to speak kindly about gays, but only in gay-traveled spaces and when no one else is looking. Note that her Human Rights Campaign keynote speech is noticeably absent from her site, whereas she seems to put every other speech on her site. The speech was also “unpublicized.” Hey Hillary… what are you trying to hide?

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton told the nation’s leading gay rights group in an unpublicized speech that she wants a partnership with gays if elected president.Clinton also said she opposes the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding gays in the military that was instituted during her husband’s presidency.

“I am proud to stand by your side,” Clinton said in a keynote speech Friday to the Human Rights Campaign. Neither Clinton’s campaign nor her Senate office made any announcement that she would be making the Friday address.

Well if you are so “proud” to stand by our side, why was the speech “hush hush”?

Meanwhile, Obama stepped in front of a religious congregation (in a black church) and said the following:

“We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them,” and “the scourge of anti-Semitism has, at times, revealed itself in our community…”

He stepped in front of a crowd not generally known for being gay friendly and criticized homophobia.

And he spontaneously changed the script in the speech he gave when Kennedy endorsed him to include gays:

“And it lives on in those Americans — young and old, rich and poor, black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American, gay and straight — who are tired of a politics that divides us and want to recapture the sense of common purpose that we had when John Kennedy was President of the United States of America,” said Obama.

The insertion of “gay and straight” was a departure from the script of Obama’s prepared remarks, forwarded to news outlets ahead of the event by his campaign.

In short, Obama acknowledges us in public, even in unpopular situations, whereas Clinton might ask for our votes but refuses to take the risk of associating herself with us in front of Middle America.

Well, there you have it.

And the Republican side… Schmuckabee appears to be doing well in states where dental hygiene is optional.

Finally, not only is it Super Tuesday, it’s also Mardi Gras, so here are some (vaguely political) boobs.