Barack Obama’s “Lady Gaga” Connection: Said They Had “Bilateral Talks” on Gays, Booing of Gay Soldier
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 2, 2011
Is Pres. Barack Obama seeking advice about gays from Lady Gaga?
Just wondering… did Pres. Ronald Reagan ever seek advice from Michael Jackson on anything when the mega-huge pop star visited the White House in 1984?
Didn’t think so.
From USA Today, Obama jokes about meeting Lady Gaga:
President Obama joked last night about his meeting with the flamboyant singer Lady Gaga during a speech to a gay rights group.
Speaking to the Human Rights Campaign, Obama said: “I appreciate the chance to join you tonight. I also took a trip out to California last week, where I held some productive bilateral talks with your leader, Lady Gaga.”
“She was wearing 16-inch heels,” Obama added. “She was eight feet tall.”
“It was a little intimidating.”
Lady Gaga's controversial meat dress at the VMAs in September 2010
From Tim Graham at NewsBusters, Obama Announces ‘Bilateral Talks’ With Lady Gaga on Gays:
President Obama spoke to the National Dinner of the gay-left Human Rights Campaign on Saturday night and began by joking: “I appreciate the chance to join you tonight. I also took a trip out to California last week, where I held some productive bilateral talks with your leader, Lady Gaga. She was wearing 16-inch heels. She was eight feet tall. It was a little intimidating.” Then he said he couldn’t give a long speech, because “Cyndi Lauper is in the house. I can’t compete with that.”
Overall, his theme was that a “big America” supports homosexuality, and conservatives favor a “small America.” He took a shot at Republicans for failing to denounce about two boos at a debate for a soldier on tape demanding Rick Santorum not turn the clock back on gay liberation. “We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders — one of whom could end up being the President of the United States — being silent when an American soldier is booed. ” Alert to PolitiFact: Obama lied by saying they’ve been “silent since.”
For his part, Santorum told Fox News he hadn’t heard the boos but denounced them. “I condemn the people who booed that gay soldier.” Obama claimed:
We don’t believe in a small America. We don’t believe in the kind of smallness that says it’s okay for a stage full of political leaders — one of whom could end up being the President of the United States — being silent when an American soldier is booed. We don’t believe in that. We don’t believe in standing silent when that happens. We don’t believe in them being silent since. You want to be Commander-in-Chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it’s not politically convenient.
Hmm, that’s funny. I don’t recall Obama standing up for Navy SEALs when they were accused of brutality to captured Muslim terror suspects. The charges were dismissed, and Obama and his media weren’t interested.
But Obama seems to be saying something he wouldn’t support to its logical conclusion. He wouldn’t condemn booing if a soldier said something racist, or insisted gays don’t belong in the military. He supported for president in 2004 a soldier who came home and denounced his fellow soldiers for atrocities in Vietnam.
Lady Gaga recently attended a San Francisco $35,800-a-person fundraiser for Obama as a paying guest at the home of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and applauded the president for being against bullying.
Obama certainly sounded to this crowd like he wanted to give them and Lady Gaga every legislative victory they seek — an Employment Non-Discrimination Act, gay marriage, “anti-bullying” education to spread the gay gospel in grade schools.
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A few other reminders of POTUS and our troops…
Instead of attending the “Heroes Ball” that honors our military, newly inaugurated Pres. Obama blew it off and partied with Hollywood elite. In the first few months of being president, one of the only plans of action Obama pursued to cut the nation’s debt was to make our troops pay for their own medical and hospital expenses when they were wounded defending our nation. Fortunately, he backpedaled on that slap-in-the-face atrocity a few days later.
Following the Fort Hood shooting massacre by a Muslim madman who had Al Qaeda ties, preceding his speech on the tragedy, the president was joking and issuing bizarre shout-outs.
The president made a swift, passionate statement to Americans a scant few hours following the Kansas murder of abortion doctor Dr. George Tiller (and that was on a Sunday), but took nearly three full days to say anything about the horrific Arkansas murder of Pvt. William Long, age 23, and the wounding of another soldier, Quinton Ezeagwula. The two were shot by a Muslim terrorist outside an Arkansas military recruitment center.
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So, Lady Gaga is the leader of the HRC, or is she the leader of gay people?
Obama doesn’t have anything substantive to say. He just appeals to progressives’ desire to have a warm and fuzzy feeling in order to get their money.
Ditto that.