Shorter Obama: “Here’s a Crumb, Faggot, Now Shut Up.”
Via Americablog, NBC seems to get what the Obama Administration is doing when it gives some benefits to same-sex couples who work for the feds:
at 5:45 pm ET, Obama signs a presidential memo granting same-sex benefits to federal workers. This move, however, seems mostly about placating gay-rights advocates who have been angered by 1) the administration’s hesitance in overturning “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”; 2) its brief defending the Defense of Marriage Act, which Obama has promised to repeal; and 3) Obama’s invitation of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the prayer at the inauguration. In fact, some wealthy gay supporters of Obama have become so mad that they’re taking their names off an upcoming Biden fundraiser.
That is 100% correct, and as a straight man in the 21st century (ie, someone who could give a rat’s ass if someone’s gay and who believes everyone is equal under the law), I am virulently offended by this. And the only reason he’s extending any benefits at all because the gay people decided to stop being an ATM. “Here’s a crumb, faggot, now shut up.”
Because it’s not just gays. This is the way the Obama Administration has acted on a whole host of issues important to progressives.
Never mind single payer health care, which even Obama acknowledges is the best route, HHS Secretary Sebelius signaled the Adminsitration is backing away from even a public option. “Here’s a crumb, hippy, now shut up.”
Or the war supplemental which we were supposed to be done with, and which gives a hundred billion dollar bailout to european banks. “You don’t even GET a crumb hippy peacenik.”
So fuck Barack Obama, fuck his war, fuck his bailout, fuck his fake-ass health care, and fuck his homophobia.
I’ve had it with this shit.
