Keith Olbermann on gay marriage and November election: "[The issue] is not going to make any difference...

There's a couple of really good political stories on AfterElton.com today including the lead story on Gay-Baiting and what kind of role it might play for John McCain in the presidential election. It is a must read.

This excerpt is from the accompanying article The Pundits Speak: Keith Olbermann and other traditional journalists on gay issues

"When nobody can afford to go to a gay wedding, a straight wedding or a protest of a gay wedding, [the issue] is not going to make any difference," said Olbermann, host of MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann." "This is the danger of values, if you will, and that's used as a facetious term, values politics - when that's all you've got, when reality intervenes, like nobody can afford to keep their home or put gasoline or home winter heating oil in it this winter, people are going to say, "You're serious? You want me to vote for you when you've ruined the economy, ruined our place in the world, haven't stopped terrorism, made us kind of the bullies of the world, and I'm supposed to vote for you because you have some phony baloney belief that gay people shouldn't have the right to be just as miserable as all the straight married people?"

Really, I sense in the country a strong sense of incredulity to a lot of this and it's not just gender or sexual orientation issues, but all these other things are just being trotted out and thrown out and nobody's responding to them.