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Boys Need Gay & Non-Binary Friends [semi-satire]

Posted on 07/30/2025 9:49:17 AM PDT by John Semmens

In an appearance on The Light Podcast, hosted by his wife, Michelle, former President Barack Obama offered his views on male development and friendships, saying "a dad, no matter how good the dad is, can't be everything. A boy may need somebody to give the boy some perspective on the dad, like Frank Davis did for me when I was growing up."

"I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren't out a lot, who became one of my favorite professors and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant--like men can't have babies," Obama recalled. "If you have a boy who is gay or non-binary, they have somebody that they go, 'Okay, I'm not alone in this.' That was a big help to me growing up."

"We have two daughters," Michelle said. "I'm so glad I didn't have a boy because he would have been another Barack Obama. Having one of those in my life is enough."


TOPICS: Humor; Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: growingup; mentor; obama; satire
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To: John Semmens

Sure. And my kids would need a pet rattlesnake too.


21 posted on 07/30/2025 5:21:04 PM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: bobbo666

Well, let’s look at this...Never voted for Obama, didn’t like him, I think he was a lousy president. I did know a little about him & Frank Davis & that didn’t help with my vision of him or Obama. Guess that was all I needed to know to NOT vote for him & what I learned later really cinched it.


22 posted on 08/01/2025 7:52:03 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: bobbo666

Well, let’s look at this...Never voted for Obama, didn’t like him, I think he was a lousy president. I did know a little about him & Frank Davis & that didn’t help with my vision of him or Obama. Guess that was all I needed to know to NOT vote for him & what I learned later really cinched it.


23 posted on 08/01/2025 7:52:18 PM PDT by oldtech
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