Wow, it didn’t take time for the other shoe to drop.  Not six hours after my first post on why the LGBT community may have a reason to worry comes a new reason to wonder what the LGBT community has coming to them from the Obama White House.  This one is more subtle than a threat.

Obama, Gov. Tim Kaine, and the DNC put together a 2010 Strategy video for 2010, and lists the groups that they are counting on for help and support to get through the 2010 elections – hoping that they are not like the 1994 mid-term elections.  That’s all fine and good.  Except that the LGBT community is NOT on the list.

This is a pretty bold move on the part of Obama, Kaine, and the DNC.  The LGBT block is both affluent and loyal.  By leaving them out, Obama is saying he doesn’t want the support nor assistance.  Yes, he is basically acknowledging that he has thrown them under the bus, and is not going to work on extracting them.

So President Obama, if you want it that way, fine.  Interesting, but stupid, strategy.

Here is the video for anyone interested in watching.

Have you seen the new DNC ad?  It explains how the RNC attacks on Obama and healthcare are purely for political reasons, and the public “outrage” at town hall meetings is bought and paid for by the RNC.

Watch it here – and tell us what you think.

First of all, I know that I don’t speak for the entire GLBT community.  And neither do the guys over at Towleroad.com or AmericaBlog.com.  But there is a movement afoot, and I hope that it continues to grow.  The Obama DOJ, and Obama himself, need to be held responsible for the hateful DOMA defense brief that was filed last week.  You know, the one that says that “normal” American’s shouldn’t have to pay for the benefits of GLBT married couples, or the statement that preventing same-sex marriage protects us from child marriage, child rape, and incest?  Yeah, that one.

First off, there is the Democratic Party fundraiser with Vice President Joe Biden, among others, at the 10th Annual LGBT Leadership Council Dinner (from the Democratic Party’s LGBT Leadership Council).  This is a dinner that raises a LOT of money off of the GLBT folks to benefit the Democratic party.  Thing is, it appears that the fundraiser itself is falling apart.  It doesn’t sit well when you insult a group of people, then ask them for money.  Blogger Andy Towle and Clinton era gay advocate David Mixner have pulled out, and Mixner has one hell of a response to all the hubub.

Strike two has just been made.  HRC, the Human Rights Campaign, has come out swinging against the hate-filled DOMA brief.  The HRC has not come out against a President this harsh since 1996, when DOMA was put into effect.  And what’s worse (for Obama) is that, according to John Aravosis at AmericaBlog.com, HRC is doing this in a VERY public fashion.  They are calling out Obama and in particular, the citation of incest, etc in the brief.  When HRC is condemining you publicly, watch out.

Now, Senator Harry Reid came out and said that there will be no legislative action to end DADT.  He wants the White House to do it; nobody plans on ending DADT from the Congress.  That would be strike three for Obama.

I would expect this kind of hate-filled argument to come out of the Bush White House.  Indeed, it appears that the author of the DOMA brief is actually a Bush era holdover.  But remember, Obama said (about AIG) that the buck stopped with him.  And I, for one, am holding Obama responsible for this.  Unless he recants and comes to the GLBT community with an apology, many of us will be more than willing to keep our $2,300, not go in to volunteer, and stay home on election day.

Okay – I am a political geek, and have loved watching Democratic conventions since I was a youngster.  This one just blew my mind.

As the custom, the roll call took place, and when the votes got close enough, the home state was yielded to.  Illinois took the floor, and looked like they were about to put Obama over the top – when Illinois yielded the floor to New York!

You should have heard me – and probably every single other viewer – at that point.  WOW does not even start to describe it.

And when New York turned it over to their Senator, Hillary Clinton, to finish the contest, I have to say it brought a tear to my eye.  I wasn’t the only one – CSPAN cut to many in the crowd, eyes swelling with tears of pride, overcome with emotion.

Hillary, I did not always like what you did during the campaign, but continued to like you and your husband.  But what you did there filled me with pride.  You go, Hillary!