Dan Savage on the "Obama administration's abysmal record, thus far, on gay issues"
Matt Welch <http://www.reason.com/staff/hitandrun/134.html> | May 14, 2009, 12:40pm The great writer/editor/prankster Dan Savage seemed to like<http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/05/13/the-fierce-urgency-of-whenever>the president's *I'm-totally-gay-marrying-David-Axelrod* joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner even less than I did<http://www.reason.com/blog/show/133414.html> : [image: I now pronounce you hi-LAR-ious!]Barack Obama condescended to use marriage equality as a punch line; he made, essentially, a *Chuck & Larry*joke about two straight dudes—Obama and Axelrod—running off to Iowa to "make it official" with the queers and their "partners." And that's hilarious, you see, because Obama and Axelrod *aren't actually homos!* So they don't need to go to Iowa to make it official! They can get married—to women—in all fifty states! HA! The more I think about the joke Obama told at the WHCD the more ticked off I get. We're witnessing rapid and historic progress in the fight for gay equality and Barack Obama, who campaigned on our issues and described himself as a "fierce advocate" of gay and lesbian equality, hasn't acknowledged the breakthroughs in Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in a setting or a with comments that are in any way equal to the significance of this historic moment. The best he can do—all he's willing to do—is toss off an Adam-Sandler-level joke. Link via Andrew Sullivan<http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/the-fierce-urgency-of-whenever-ctd-2.html>. Katherine Mangu-Ward gave advice for "what to do when your political party is just not that into you <http://www.reason.com/news/show/130649.html>" back in December. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
