Hillary Rodham Clinton sucks.

It's one thing to be a center-left Democrat on the national level like her husband was, it's another thing the be a center-right Democrat on the state level pretending to be a center-left Democrat on the national level just to use your constituents and your office as a six-year stepping stone to the 2008 Presidential election.

So the Empire State Pride Agenda is under fire at the moment for circulating an internal memo criticizing Mrs. Clinton's failure to support full marraige equality and stating that the ESPA should not participate in a fund raiser for her 2006 Senate Re-election campaign (Leaked Memo Stirs Firestorm, Gay City News, Feb. 23 - Mar. 1, 2006). The logic behind the memo? As reported in the Gay City News:

In explaining why donating money to Clinton’s 2006 Senate re-election campaign, widely seen as a precursor to a presidential bid in 2008, would “actually hurt our community,” [ESPA Executive Director Alan] Van Capelle, who said she deserved another term, wrote, “It will send a message to other elected officials that you can be working against us during this critical time and not suffer a negative pushback from the gay community. We have become a community that throws money at politicians and we demand nothing in return. And that’s what we get—nothing. It’s the wrong message to send.”

Sounds right to me.