I finally understand. Barack Obama is Santa Claus

[Prism]

People really believe this. Follow me here.

Take a set of parents who want their children to have a nice Christmas. What do they do? They work hard for it, save, scrimp, maybe work overtime or even pick up a part-time job. The kids are no help, of course. After the parents working all day and come home, the buggers are still running around, making messes, need feeding, need bathing, need homework time. They're weary to the bone, but the look on their kids' faces will be worth it.

Then Christmas comes, all the presents are piled under the tree. The children practically knock down their parents in the rush downstairs on Christmas morning, tear open the paper, look at their exhausted, overworked parents who sacrificed so much and scream . . .

"Thanks, Santa!"

Barack Obama is like the LGBT community's Santa Claus. We do all the work. We apply all the pressure on the administration and Congress. We have to fight with a sizable portion of our own party to even get a compromise that the President says he doesn't even really want right now. We have to sit there while privileged straight people with all their rights are constantly screaming, denigrating, fighting, trolling, stalking, and freaking out on us. People like Dan Choi are chaining themselves to fences and putting their careers on the line. People have spent their entire years battling cowardly politicians for their simple, basic rights.

And when the administration budges the slightest, reluctant, grumbling, hesitant, incomplete bit . . .

"Thanks, Barack Obama!"

All while not making it the slightest bit easy on us, ignoring the absolute hell they've put LGBTers through, and enjoying a shiny new toy they will totally forget about tomorrow, while we get to clean up the mess.

I hate Santa Claus.

[stray cat]

1. It seems to me people think he is a hybrid between god and their personal fairy godmother

[nichomachus]

4. That was the image he campaigned on

[bullwinkle428]

6. Yeah, yeah...we get it: "STFU, GLBT!" Maybe you should just

make it your sigline. :eyes:

[Smashcut]

2. We don't deserve him!!!!!!!

We deserve much better.

[joeybee12]

3. Put any issue/group in there as well...try envirnomentalists or those who wanted REAL

HRC...it's almost scary.

[tbyg52]

7. "Almost".....? nt

[readmoreoften]

5. I don't believe in Santa Clause. I believe in us and the hard work we do.

No politician has EVER done anything but fight us. Including Barney Frank. And that's since the early 1970s. Even those who do something for us, turn around and bash us to show their "bipartisanship."

[QC]

8. All this talk of magic wands had me wondering if some think he's Tinkerbell. n/t

[newtothegame]

9. You should have learned in summer 2008...

when half the bandwidth on DU was taken up by pictures like this :


and this:



...that this election would have nothing to do with whether the guy's resume showed he could actually get anything major accomplished...

Queue DU'er listing minor issue accomplishments that aided avoidance of major issues in 3...2....1.....