Just when you thought Obama will slow down, no, he won't. Remember when he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act for equal pay for women, that was a total sell out to women all over America corporations all over America.
Today, he is at it again. Today he signed a historic Hate Crimes bill 11 years after Matthew Shepard's Death. This bill will make it a federal hate crime to assault people based on their sexual orientation, gender and gender identity. In doing so, Obama has sold out to Gays, Lesbians, Bisexual, Transgenders, Blacks, Latinos Walmart and other too big to fail banks.
UPDATE 1: Non-snarky diary on this subject. :)
President Obama signed major civil rights legislation on Wednesday, making it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation, gender and gender identity. The new measure expands the the scope of a 1968 law that applies to people attacked because of their race, religion or national origin. The U.S. Justice Department will have expanded authority to prosecute such crimes when local authorities don't.
This provision, The Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act, was attached to a defense authorization bill. It was named after Matthew Shepard, a gay college student tortured and killed in 1998, as well as James Byrd Jr., an African American man who was chained to a pick up truck and dragged to death.
Bush, by all means refused to move this legislation for the last 8 years. Beyond belief. Obama has sold out where even Bush didn't. McCain should've been president.
This is not change you can believe in.