Every day, President Obama’s image as some sort of historically gay-friendly president keeps taking a pounding (no pun intended). First, Donald Trump noted that Obama’s opinion on gay marriage is the same as purported homophobia poster child Carrie Prejean. Then Dick Cheney spoke up in support of same-sex marriage. You know you’re in trouble when Emperor Palpatine sounds more progressive than you.
People are starting to notice, according to Politico:
President Barack Obama’s promises of change are falling short for one core Democratic constituency: gays and lesbians, whose leaders say Obama’s administration isn’t keeping up with the times.
Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats who supported Obama in November, have begun to voice their public frustration with Obama’s inaction, small jokes at their community’s expense and deafening silence on what they see as the signal civil rights issue of this era.
His most important campaign promises repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the military ban on openly gay and lesbian service-members have not been fulfilled.
And the news, which emerged quietly earlier this year, that he’d supported same-sex marriage back in 1996, then changed his mind, especially rankles. As mainstream Democratic politicians such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) move to support same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates say that the barrier-breaking president looks increasingly odd for opposing what they see as full equality.
Fortunately, Obama’s giving them the one thing he has in abundance: promises. “Just be patient,” they’re told, “And you’ll get everything you want. Trust me!” Join the club, gay folks.
He’s also being taken to task not just for what he isn’t saying, but what he is:
Obama also has been criticized for a joke at the expense of same-sex marriage. After the White House Correspondents Association dinner, columnist Dan Savage fumed that Obama’s only reference since being sworn in to the high-profile drive toward same-sex marriage in Iowa had been a joke about going to the state with longtime friend and adviser David Axelrod to “make it official.”
“The best he can do — all he’s willing to do — is toss off an Adam Sandler-level joke,” Savage wrote.
There’s no way to force Dan Savage to have a sense of humor about himself, of course, but Obama should’ve known that his joke would raise some meticulously groomed eyebrows out there.
Well, at least our president doesn’t have to worry about gay rights activists pulling an eightmaps.com on him. The whole world already knows where he lives.
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Why the feet dragging? Obviously BO is asking himself, WWJD? And the answer he keeps coming up with is, J is against it.
That’s Jeremiah, not Jesus.
Obviously the Gay Community is wrong here. I mean, whatever Glorious Leader says becomes the law (and by that I mean a physical law, something you can’t argue against, as in the law of thermodynamics).
Frankly, I’m surprised those who were married before Prop 8 passed haven’t burst into flames yet by his bidding. He can do that you know, he’s The One.
I think the gay and lesbian community will be in for a pleasant surprise should President Obama get re-elected in 2012… said surprise scheduled for early summer 2013
Apparently Gay Rights groups didn’t do their research on what someone raised in a Muslim household in a traditional country (Indonesia) usually thinks about Gay Marriage.
They also apparently didn’t do their research on what large groups of black voters thought about Gay Marriage. I suppose they can look on the bright side… Obama is half white.
Just another group of people he has managed to piss off, another day that ends with the letter Y. What a surprise.
Give him time.
Pretty soon Primo Bama will be boasting about his gay heritage, his gay middle name, his gay upbringing, his gay father, and his gay father’s gay father.
Oh, wait. That’s only if a GLBT peace accord will get him into the record books.
Or they have nukes.
Or spiffy burqas.
Sorry guys, guess yer outta luck.
Maybe if the gays gave him a nice ipod then he might reconsider?
And gee, Obama is a hypocrite. Who would have thunk this. He is an egotistical, inexperienced lying biracial man who is putting this country down the . I hope more and more people realize that they voted in an empty suit full of empty promises.
I have some gay friends who still think he is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
What the ____ are you people talking about?? Obama has brought change! For the first time we have a President who is half African (black), one raised in a Muslim home, one that can give speeches with a level of hubris never approached…even by J.F.K. and we have a President who, instead of waiting out the consequences of GM and Chrysler’s bad decisions over the years has decided to step in, unlike other Presidents, and actually take ownership of a sinking (oops heh heh)!
We also have a President who is not willing to confabulate as we all do and certainly they do but to lie to your face with a confidence unmatched, even by Nixon (cuz any fool could see Nixon squirming).
But to boot, in his first 100 days Obama increased the deficit greater than all previous Presidents combined!
Yes we got change…chumps!
Next Please!
Ya know, that picture makes it look like the following exchange took place:
“What’s my opinion on gay marriage? Uh…er…well…LOOK OVER THERE (get my teleprompter set up, will ya??)…KEEP LOOKING OVER THERE…DON’T YOU SEE IT?? IT’S HOPE!! AND CHANGE!!”
How can anyone be surprised? Obama bows to countries that KILL gay folk. He considers countries that HANG gay people to be on equal footing with our country and deserving of our respect and understanding.
Gay folks- you screwed yourself with a big-eared black c*ck. How you like them apples? Morons.
So…he’s not from Hawaii, then? Or Chicago? NOW he’s from Indonesia. Wow. I would have guessed he hailed straight from the devil’s arse.
Well, he is from Chicago by way of Indonesia and Hawaii. Makes me wonder even more about where he was born….
BHO was born in Kenya according to his family and the ambassador from Kenya, but that’s a whole other can of worms…
He’s from wherever it is politically expedient to be from.
I’m sure that, if space aliens landed tomorrow, he’d say his great-grandfather was actually born on Io and came to this planet in 1852.
I’m amazed that more and more people are amazed that he is saying exactly what he said on the campaign trail. Who would have thought a Politician would actually not do what he said, or say what he did, or what ever gets him more votes in his campaing speeches/state of the union addresses.
Does it make me a bad person that every time the Glorious Leader, Bow Before Him (or else you’re racist) is put into perspective…and that every time anyone loses a little faith in him, I have a massive internal moment of glee?
Yeah…you go ahead and believe in your change, bitches. I’ma stand over here and laugh.
Then maybe later I will cry myself to sleep over the stupidity of humanity.
Genius has its limits; stupidity is bottomless.
This jugeared turd’s antics would be amusing, if he weren’t giving a once-great nation such a vigorous rogering.
First of all, stonegrigio? May I call him “B.O.” now too? I couldn’t think of anything snappy to convey how much I dislike him, and you have made me so happy by coming up with that. (Also, kudos to all of you brilliant people who also call him “Our Glorious Leader.” Thank you for making me feel less alone.)
The real point of my post, however, is that I am horrified that Dick Cheney would be called “Emperor Palpatine.” Mr. Scowl, that distinction belongs to His Holy Popeness Been-A-Dick. When he was appointed, a fellow disgruntled Catholic and friend of mine compared His Popeness’s portrait with a portrait of Palpatine, and the likeness made my hair stand up. You could literally not tell who was who, except for the clothes. WOW.
Anna: To paraphrase Beige (I’m pretty sure it was Beige) from a comment made a while back, I do not have the “deed and title” to “BO.” Thanks for giving me credit for coming up with that, but there’s nothing original about referring to someone by their initials. That this person’s initials have a malodorous connotation is his misfortune. Although, in BO’s case, it’s more than appropriate.
Every time I see him on television — AKA every day of my life — I think, “It’s not TV, it’s BHO.” But we should still give him a chance, not hope he doesn’t get everything he wants, etc.
No! It’s not supposed to happened like this! HE’S the One! SHE’S the next Jackie-O! Whatever happened to HOPE and CHANGE and…and…and…
And then reality kicked in.
@TrojanPrincess: So, that would explain why he’s doing what he can to raise our inflation levels and reduce our economy to rubble, [i]a la[/i] Kenya? Got it.
pssstttt, Beige.
Use , rather than brackets. I screwed it up the first time too.
Okay, let me try that again…
Use greater than & less than symbols rather than brackets.
See, I can still totally screw things up.
Well, it’s been settled, it doesn’t matter where BO was born, because he is God. BO was “revealed” to this world, just like Islam.
Heh. Sorry about that, and thanks, Minnow. Hardly the first time I’ve screwed up something, nor the last…
Wait, if Obama was born in Kenya, how is he allowed to be President? I thought you had to be an American citizen *and* born in this country to be Commander-in-Chief…
Exactly, MC Mom, he doesn’t meet the constitutional qualifications to be president. I’m really not big on conspiracy theories, but I read and watched some stuff on the Obama birth certificate conspiracy and it’s pretty convincing. For someone who is so adamant about “transparency,” it’s very curious why nobody is allowed to see his actual birth certificate or any transcripts or records from any of the schools he attended.
Look: Soros and his little marionette here don’t have to answer to piddly little things like American law. They’re out to save us from dangerous right-wing things like freedom of speech and religion, security, and individual responsibility. If he’s not actually qualified, well, omelette, eggs, broken, blah blah blah…