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" Dana Milbank is reckoned to be a wit in Washington. Washington is half-right. Ever since the president made his statement about marriage equality, a certain foul stream of homophobic political waste has come oozing to the surface. On Sunday, Mary Matalin made her viperish cracks about Biden&amp;#039;s having &amp;quot;outed&amp;quot; the president and about the gay money flowing into the president&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;purse.&amp;quot; Then we had Senator Aqua Buddha from Kentucky, son of Crazy Uncle Liberty (!), who doesn&amp;#039;t care about those social issues at all, recalling third-grade, which is perhaps the last one he actually passed, and saying he didn&amp;#039;t know the president&amp;#039;s views on marriage &amp;quot;could get any gayer.&amp;quot; Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk.  There has been more than a little speculation down through the years in the bleaker precincts of the lunatic Right that the president may well be gay. These lunatics get themselves some reinforcement from the mainstream media. (To be fair, many of them get reinforcement through the fillings in their teeth.) Maureen Dowd spent a long time working out her Daddy issue by calling the president &amp;quot;Obambi&amp;quot; and the like. It&amp;#039;s not a big leap from discreet gay-baiting to feminizing the president. (And there&amp;#039;s a whole &amp;#039;nother school of thought that claims the president&amp;#039;s hen-pecked by his wife, who is, you know, black. The latest variation on this comes in the new landfill produced by Ed Klein.) And here we come to Milbank, last seen working this territory when he was doing performance pieces for Washington Post videos in which he suggested Hillary Clinton should drink &amp;quot;Mad Bitch Beer.&amp;quot; But Obama was being modest. He didn&amp;#039;t deliver a cheap applause line. He delivered an entire speech full of them. His reelection campaign has been working for months to exploit the considerable gender gap, which puts him far ahead of likely GOP rival Mitt Romney among women. But Monday&amp;#039;s activities veered into pandering, as Obama brazenly flaunted his feminine mystique. He speculated that &amp;quot;Congress would get a lot more done&amp;quot; if more women were there. He speculated that, although no women signed the Constitution, &amp;quot;we can assume that there were founding mothers whispering smarter things in the ears of the founding fathers.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Brazenly flaunted&amp;quot;? Why, that shameless hussy! And, as it happens, there were founding mothers, and they were fairly shouting into the ears of the founding fathers. I hope Abigail Adams and Mercy Otis Warren come back from the dead and beat this clown up just for laughs. It gets infinitely worst the longer you go on. The president &amp;quot;risks confirming being the coastal elitist he&amp;#039;s often accused of being&amp;quot; because he appeared on stage with Evan Wolfson, the marriage-equality activist. What Milbank declines to mention, of course, is that the people who accuse the president of &amp;quot;being a coastal elitist&amp;quot; would believe that even if the president appeared at Soldier Field playing middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears. But he is pitching his stand-up routine to those same people, so what does he care? Your elite political press: a whorehouse with 500 piano players. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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