What if Obama really wants a fight over gay pajamas?

Los Angeles Times ^ | What if Obama really wants a fight over gay pajamas? October 13, 2009 | Andrew Malcolm

[nickcarraway]

A little something to think about:

Have you too noticed that very few accidents seem to happen around Barack Obama?

Sure, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright association blew up in his face; that was just a matter of time and came not from Republicans but from fellow Democrats. One day the Harvard-educated, freshman senator from Illinois thought there were 57 states. He didn't know Canada had a prime minister, not a president. And it took some doing for the man to grudgingly give in to that stupid lapel flag pin thing.

The Geithner-Daschle-Solis back-tax deals were also messy.

But those gaffes happened early in the presidential campaign or the administration. He and his team have been touching every conceivable base at every opportunity, from tonight's Latin music fiesta at the White House to marking Leif Erikson Day to earn the Viking vote.

In fact, Obama's devoted so much time cultivating and nurturing these political niches that critics credibly suggest he might profitably invest less effort in the perpetual campaign mode -- flying off to Copenhagen to take an embarrassingly blunt public hit for the Chicago machine and chatting up that serial philanderer on the CBS late show -- and put in a lot more shirt-sleeve time in the Oval Office being the new president at the old desk.

On Saturday night before he was asked about "don't ask-don't tell" Obama told the banqueting but impatient Human Rights Campaign crowd (full text right here) all the Democratically correct things it wanted to hear before the big march for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) equality the next day.

So it was very surprising -- even jarring -- when on Sunday CNBC's John Harwood, long a respected political journalist, reported a conversation with an anonymous White....

[Berlin_Freeper]

So it was no accident whatsoever when that wily White House "advisor" explained, "governing a closely-divided country is complicated and difficult."

I read this as furiously desperate political spin.

I think the comment causing this: those bloggers need to take off their pajamas, get dressed and realize that governing a closely-divided country is complicated and difficult.

... is defensive in nature and shows what a blackeye SNL gave them with "Jack Squat" and how they are still reeling from it.

LoL!

[Willie Green]

to marking Leif Erikson Day to earn the Viking vote.

And upset a bunch of Italians in the process.

[RoadTest]

“that stupid lapel flag pin thing”

Is that “flag thing” stupid, or is the stupidity on the side of the LA Times editors, who have profited handsomely from the country that flag represents? Who is the stupid party here??

[dead]

That was actually a good article, shockingly from the LA Times.

It would make sense for Obama to throw the moonbats, symbolically, under the bus to give him some "street cred" with the mushy middle.

The moonbats are too stupid to realize that he's really on their side and just needs them to act angry for theatrical purposes.

But it doesn't matter, they'll still vote for him whether they're in on the game or not.