Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion (video: Funny or Die)
From Funny or Die: “Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it’s so important.”
Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, Jake, and Antonio Scarlata star in Ron Howard’s short feature, Presidential Reunion.
“Now that explicit anti-gay animus is an albatross, those who oppose gay civil rights are driven to invent ever loopier rationales for denying those rights, whether in the military or in marriage.”
— Frank Rich, New York Times columnist,
from Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet
They’re not going to let you in the car! (video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
More smart politics from Jon Stewart capped by Aasif Mandvi presenting the new logo of the Democratic Party: A dead possum.
Obama’s health care lies and reversals (video: Lee Stranahan at YouTube)
Lee Stranahan is an independent filmmaker, writer and blogger at The Huffington Post. He’s also an “artist coach, unjobber, husband, homeschooling dad.” Stranahan says, “I’m a former Obama supporter. I’m just totally fed up with reversal after reversal and lie after lie from President Obama on health care.”
The late Billy Preston – Nothing from nothing 1975 (video: fritz5174 at YouTube)
I’ve been telling friends, and anyone crazy enough to listen to an angry gay blogger like me, what the gays need is a new anthem.
I think I found it.
According to Newsweek, the gays can again expect zip, nada, zero, null from the Obama Administration. In 2009, the gays were rewarded for their loyalty, cash and votes with a few trinkets, a bauble or two, a couple of pretty speeches and cocktails for the A-gays. In 2010, expect a lump of coal in your stocking as the Democrats will be scrambling to retain their numeric advantage, which hasn’t actually proven to be all that advantageous after all.
Moreover, if socially divisive policies have the potential to compromise his legislative agenda, Obama has proven that he simply won’t pursue them. Expect this tension to become more acute as the 2010 elections loom—and for gay rights to be shunted aside again. The last thing this pragmatist president will do is hand election-year ammunition to an already energized conservative base that’s venomously opposed to gay marriage.
“Socially divisive policies,” by the way, is another way of saying: basic rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender American citizens.
Sing along with Billy Preston with this modest adjustment to his lyrics:
Nothin’ from nothin’ leaves nothin’
And I’m not stuffin’
Believe you me
Don’t you remember I told ya
I’m a soldier in the war for equality, yeah
Yes, I am
