Towle Road: Obama Clueless About Promise Gays Want Him to Keep?

[Bluebear]

Obama made note --- fun --- of the LGBT protestors outside the Beverly Hilton hotel when he spoke at the DNC Benefit held there last night. The NYT reports:



"A gaggle of sign-waving protestors milled around outside The Beverly Hilton, the sprawling hotel on Wilshire Boulevard. They must have caught the president’s eye when he arrived at the hotel from an earlier stop in Las Vegas because he relayed one of their messages to the crowd.

"'One of them said, 'Obama keep your promise,’ ' the president said. 'I thought that’s fair. I don’t know which promise he was talking about.'

"The people in the audience – who paid $30,400 per couple to attend – laughed as they ate a dinner of roasted tenderloin, grilled organic chicken and sun choke rosemary mashed potatoes."


Which promise? How about starting with the repeal of DOMA, the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell', a federal hate crimes law, and above all, the promise to be a "fierce advocate" for all the LGBT people who voted him into office?

The AP posted a slightly different report on the remarks: "While many Obama supporters waved and cheered as his motorcade approached the Beverly Hilton, some protesters decried Tuesday's California Supreme Court ruling that upheld the voter-approved gay marriage ban. Some of them also urged Obama to repeal the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy for gays. Obama said he could not hear the protesters' exact words, but he agreed with one who shouted that the president should keep his promises."

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/05/obama-clueless-about-promise-gays-want-him-to-keep.html

[stillcool]

1. I guess the Armenians..

were invisible?

[Bluebear]

2. I am googling for these phantom Armenians and no news stories,

http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=armenian

[stillcool]

4. Kos has video..

[Bluebear]

5. I can't view video at work, why not one news story?

Just wondering.

[stillcool]

7. I don't know...

it's pretty obvious. I guess maybe it doesn't have the same outrage effect?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/28/736393/-Obama-Doesnt-Mock-Gay-Rights-Protestors-at-CA-Fundraiser.(Updated)

[Bluebear]

13. Well who is Ambrose Burnside? A reporter?

[stillcool]

17. a diarist...

supplying links to actual statements, and video from the event(s).

[Scurrilous]

8. Demonstration Against Obama’s Broken Promises on Armenian Genocide

<snip>

"In keeping with efforts to remind President Obama of his pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide and to express the community’s disappointment over his broken promises a demonstration is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27 to coincide with his visit to Beverly Hills.

The demonstration will take place from 3:00 to 6 p.m. at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Join the Armenian Youth Federation and the “Shant” Student Association in expressing the community’s profound disappointment in President Obama for not keeping his campaign pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

“We are not here to label the President as a Genocide denier, but rather to raise our voices and our concerns regarding his broken promises,” said Arek Santikian, a spokesperson for the AYF. “We also want the president to realize how dissapointed the community is with his ill-advised cut in foreign aid to Armenia.”

“Obama has been a long time friend of the Armenian people, but his recent actions are showing us that politics in Washington, DC are more important to him than voicing his true convictions. This is truly disappointing,” Santikian added."

http://www.asbarez.com/2009/05/26/demonstration-over-obama%E2%80%99s-broken-promises/

[Bluebear]

12. Where does it say that Obama was joking about an Armenian?

[Howardx]

10. heres 3 off the top

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/obama-faces-armenian-and-gay-rights-protesters-beverly-hills

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/05/227567.php

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/People-Pay-Big-Bucks-to-Rub-Elbows-With-President.html


weird that you didnt find these when you googled



:eyes:

[Bluebear]

11. Don't roll your lame eyes at me. Click on the google link yourself.

"Weird" huh? Whatever.

[Howardx]

14. dont you think you could have provided google a little more than

"armenians"? if you really wanted to find something that is. :eyes:

[Bluebear]

15. chances are i am ignoring you noew too. please do me the same favor.

If you spent as much time helping your fellow human beings obtain rights as much as you do posting snark and rolling eyes here, what a powerful impact you could have. As it is, you are just forgettable. Ciao.

[Howardx]

16. dont call me out in diaries

and i'll be glad to ignore you.

[Neecy]

3. wow

I wish I had 15 grand for that menu, and to swoon at Obama and laugh at his unfunny insults...dreamy.

[KG]

6. from reading DU, it's clear to me he never promised anybody anything ever!

so, what anybody got to be upset about anything? i mean, at least he's not bush. :eyes:

[ZombieHorde]

9. The full quote does not sound as bad as the OP.

If he did not truly know who they were, then no real foul.

[ProgressIn2008]

18. How nice that he acknowledges the right of the peasants to demand their civil rights

30k a plate? Ugh.

And like he couldn't guess what they were protesting about.