Party Favorz

2008 was an unprecedented year for politics.  The first serious black (Obama) and female (Clinton) candidates for President duked it out in a primary that received more votes than any presidential election in history.  Huge sums of money were raised like no one had ever seen before and had the Republicans salivating at the prospects of grassroots fundraising on the Internet.   This is also the year that the housing market took a nosedive setting off a worldwide recession and massive job losses all the while gas prices shot through the roof. Equally, gay rights/equality finally took center stage after the passage of Proposition 8 in California which barred gay marriage and effectively defined the institution as only being between one man and one woman.  Frankly, I don't care about the word "marriage" but I truly believe that gay people should have the legal right to become enjoined in some form of government-sanctioned matrimony, thus affording them all the legal entitlements that heterosexual couples enjoy, f