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This is a good story to end the work week on. Yeah I know it’s not gay news related, but if you get prissy your heart is colder than those yahoos at Westboro Baptist “Church.” Please go get some help. Like today. Remember Damon Weaver? The precocious kid reporter from Florida who was looking for an interview with President Obama? Well he got it last night.
Weaver, Pahokee’s favorite son, sat down for 10 minutes with Obama in the White House Diplomatic Room. The interview ranged from the serious (give Weaver props for asking about bullying and violence in our schools) to the silly. Damon would like french fries served at every school lunch (not too outlandish really).
This morning the 11 year old boy will be hitting the morning shows on CNN and MSNBC. And I hear talk of him holding a press conference on the South Lawn.
Don’t want to be too cynical (yeah I do) but this feel good story comes at a perfect time for the White House. Obama will be in Montana today for a town hall meeting on health insurance and if it gets hot, the White House can just point to Damon and the press will lose its mind. This kid is catnip. Remember during the inauguration festivities when ABC News’ Diane Sawyer almost adopted him?
For the prissy ones already banging at the keyboard about how their grand gay day has been ruined forevah, here is something you’ll like. While Damon was all respectful to his interviewee, a former president was taken to the woodshed for DADT and DOMA. Blogger Lane Hudson, who exposed Mark Foley for the creep he is, was listening to Bill Clinton at the Netroots Nation conference and had enough. Hudson stood up and interrupted the Big Dog, and gave him grief for DADT and DOMA.
Two things stand out: apparently some in the audience booed Hudson and some old lady told him to leave. Progressives really hate it when you bring up stuff they don’t want to deal with. Second, part of Clinton’s response is instructive.
“You wanna talk about ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’, I’ll tell you exactly what happened. You couldn’t deliver me any support in the Congress and they voted by a veto-proof majority in both houses against my attempt to let gays serve in the military and the media supported them. They raised all kinds of devilment. And all most of you did was to attack me instead of getting some support in the congress. Now, that’s the truth.”
For six months I’ve been reading how President Obama hasn’t done squat for the gay community. Heck I’ve written some the stuff myself. All fair. All fair. Yet presidential leadership does not operate in a vacuum. It would be nice if politicians did the right thing, but it’s naive to think a president is going to put his/her toe in something without cover. Even Damon knows that! What did Franklin D. Roosevelt say?
“I agree with you, I want to do it; now make me do it.”
RIP Les Paul.
If you’ve written the blog, than it is gay. However, the problem with this story is the powers that be are exploiting this kid for obama’s benefit and now you are exploiting him as well. At least you’re all helping to exploit a male child this time.
I wonder how much the questions that the young man had were censored. What sort of hidden teleprompter your president used?
Oh Bill, Bill, Bill…. The problem was not the LGBT community. Let’s stop blaming the victim here. Rather, it was a president who negligently allowed the agenda to be set by his political opposition, including in his own party. Who himself admitted at the time that he naïvely didn’t expect the opposition he got on our issues. Bill doesn’t like to take responsibility.