Steve Hildebrand taking lead for Obama administration as it breaks promises to the GLBT community
Why should the special interest groups that made up Obama’s coalition not feel the buyer’s remorse that the rest of the country is feeling over President Obama? In a recent letter to the Huffington post website, Obama’s campaign manager Steve Hildebrand tries to let down the GLBT community gently over the administration bagging out on doing what they promised:
The new Obama talking points don’t even include DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell as priorities any longer.
President Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Steve Hildebrand, who is himself openly gay, penned a piece for the Huffington Post yesterday that delineates the three “gay” priorities that Congress should focus on: safe schools; hate crimes; and ENDA.
After two weeks of the Obama White House reeling over the gay backlash caused by the anti-gay DOMA brief, which compared gay marriage to incest and pedophilia, we now have the number two guy on the Obama campaign suddenly writing about what our legislative priorities should be. Don’t think for a minute that this essay wasn’t either written by the White House, written at their behest, or at the very least cleared with them. This essay is the White House’s thinking on gay issues.
And what is that thinking? First, that the burden for doing anything pro-gay in the remaining three and a half years of the Obama administration is now shifted to Congress. Obama has no role whatsoever, and no power to influence anything, even though he’s still the leader of the free world. The essay makes clear that the onus is on Congress and no one else.
and…
It’s not clear if some gay group is giving Obama the behind the scenes permission to abandon his promises to our community on the military ban and on DOMA, but it’s increasingly looking that way.
A fractured Obama coalition coupled with a country weary of a government moving towards socialism might just be ripe in 2012 for a solid conservative such as Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney or John Thune to capture the imagination of the nation.
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Comments
“Buyer’s remorse?” I think you’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid, PP, and it’s gone to your brain. President Obama still enjoys a high approval rating. Remind me, what was President Bush’s approval rating when he left office?
But I am disappointed that the President hasn’t done more to help disenfranchised gay Americans.
John,
BHO is still in the honeymoon period of his term in office and his numbers are beginning to fall. His personal popularity is much higher than the popularity of his policies. Once we pass the “Bush did it” phase and BHO is judged by his own policies and their results, I expect his popularity to fall in line with that of his policies.
Wow! How much do you suppose Daschle’s cronies are going to spend against JT in the 2010 senate race? I bet a lot!
Those guys are everywhere!