Sssh, it is a secret.

With every Tom, Dick, and Hilary running for President, you would think that when an opportunity pops up where a candidate gets to sound off on his/her views about Gay Rights, that they’d leap at the chance and make the most out of it, public relations wise.

You would think so, but not Senator Hilary Clinton.

Instead she doesn’t publicize her address to a Gay Right’s group where she claims to want to work with us Gays, to be a partner with us, and that she supports the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy of the United States Military. Kind of seems to me that she wants the gay vote, but doesn’t want to anger the anti-gay voices that exist out there. So she soft sells it to the Gay groups while ignoring it elsewhere.

“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. (story)

I don’t know but by not announcing her address, by keeping it low key it makes me feel like she wants our support, but doesn’t want to let anyone else know. Sort of like, visiting us in a closet, and looking over her shoulder to make sure no one sees her going in.

And she wants to be President?

It will be interesting to see just how much support she does give, to the repeal of an act that was introduced by her husband, President Bill Clinton. Kind of makes you want to ask too, what did she say then when she had an opportunity to shape that policy? Was it like when she was named to define the direction America would go in providing health care for all of its citizens?

Roughly 50 Million have no health insurance or coverage today. That worked well didn’t it Senator Clinton?

Isn’t it rather hypocritical of her to now say she supports its repeal, when she had an opportunity to maybe shape the policy at the beginning? Sort of like her stand on Iraq. She votes for the war, and now wants the troops all home before the next President takes office, and calls the war a mistake. Well didn’t she support that mistake? If it is a mistake now, why wasn’t it back then when she voted for it?

This is what is troubling about her candidacy, she tries to rewrite history to suit her own ambition, very much like George Bush has done in his seven years of office. Yet while she slams Bush for his attack on gays, talks about having an open door for gays to meet and talk with her, she doesn’t come up with anything really substantial, like an endorsement of insuring gays aren’t targets of bullies and hate crimes, or that they aren’t shut out of adoption, foster parenting, or in some cases, just existing.

No comment about whether she supports or opposes all those constitutional amendments banning same sex marriage, or those that define marriage as a union between a male and female only. I mean she wants an open door, which is nice, but come on, once she’s elected, how open will that door be?