Last week Saturday Night Live lampooned Obama for not doing anything, the International Olympic Committee said ‘We’re not that into you…” and by Friday Oslo awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize…. methinks the aliens living beneath the surface of the Moon may have issues, but that’s a story for another day.
THE CRAZY WEEKEND BEGAN FRIDAY morning with the strange news that NASA bombed the Moon in search of water beneath the surface (is this where the plutocracy plans to relocate once all resources are depleted?) to Oslo bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on President Obama, to the president’s address to the Human Rights Campaign Saturday evening and a quick jaunt to our nation’s capitol for the National Equality March on Sunday.
I campaigned and fundraised for Obama from 2007-2008. This, as the Hollywood Precinct Captain for the campaign, as well as an organizer for the fundraising apparatus Generation Obama Los Angeles (GOLA) and co-hosting a huge early fundraiser at Universal City Walk in early 2008. I was an enthusiastic supporter, if not quite an Obamaniac.В I had been intrigued by Obama since hearing him speak at the 2004 Democratic Convention that I was covering for spin.com. His rhetoric and later his story (I ran out and bought Dreams From My Father immediately) resonated so much with my own background. That and Barack Obama and my own name are as equally different and un-American as names, can get and yet we both embraced and found ourselves benefiting from the American Dream.
I was hooked.
I recap all of this for two reasons: one has to do with my relationship to many democratic gay men during the election and the presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The shrillness and opposition toward Obama that came from many gay men amounted to the kind of diva worship usually reserved for Madonna and Cher. Since the bitch can’t sing or dance I would often argue to highly angry opponents, that on a simply prima facie view, I thought it would look dynastic, corrupt and Third Worldish to have nearly twenty years of U.S. government under two families.