When Cooper suggests that the President has, since his inauguration, been confronted with a multitude of issues, both domestic and foreign, that may have distracted him and his administration from focusing fully on gay issues, to which Lance rightly and smartly suggests that “there is never a convenient time to give full and equal civil rights in this country,” and add that “we had eight years of peace and prosperity under Bill Clinton and what did we get? We got DADT and DOMA.” I am not convinced, however, that Socarides is the person anyone wants brokering deals for the gay community, he having helped Clinton imagine both of those damaging, static political policies and he seems somewhat disconnected from the reality of Obama and what candidate Barack Obama did in fact promise and not promise.
Keith Olbermann, on Countdown, had the president of the Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese to discuss the day’s disappointments and Solmonese was – and I am being far too generous – frustratingly civil, a statesmen who walked the middle of road, politically polite at a moment when I am certain that decorum is the furthest from what anyone needs to begin to bring about real change. The segment was embarrassing, a fact not lost on Olbermann, whose anger and indignation surpassed that of Solmonese, who came across as a little too self-satisfied, as though the now infamous, “strongly worded” letter he sent to President Obama regarding the Justice Department’s response to a legal challenge brought against the Defense of Marriage Act were enough.
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