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	<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Will Not Have a 'We Shall Overcome' Moment on Gays]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-bohrer/why-obama-will-not-have-a_b_224636.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, LGBT activist David Mixner <a href="http://www.davidmixner.com/2009/07/separate-but-unequal-means-gay-apartheid.html#more">wrote about</a> the letdown that was President Obama's East Room event to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots. A "carefully worded warm, fuzzy speech that failed to answer many questions," Mixner called it, writing that he wanted something more. Jonathan Martin <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Mixner_wants_an_Obama_And_We_Shall_Overcome_moment.html?showall">said</a> it seemed like Mixner is hoping for a moment like the one Lyndon Johnson created in March of 1965, when he declared "We Shall Overcome" to a special joint...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-07-02T17:25:00-04:00</date_published>
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