I am not going to list gay leaders of groups who never got a PAID JOB as a gay liasion, but these are the true heros and leaders, and no, they never “sold” an endorsement for office like, do I have to name names?

With so much experience and wisdom within him, it’s sad to see someone like Roskoff [who as far as one knows isn’t simply driven by the unquenchable thirst for revenge that David Mixner obviously is] be taken in by the synthetic siren song of the Dali Obama. True, one might read what he said as, “Obama is the lesser of two evils,” but there is a curious and disingenuous focus on Sen. Clinton’s statements about gay marriage while failing to mention Obama is also opposed and has repeatedly ceded control of the word to homophobic religionists, lecturing us on our lack of gratitude for his willingness to grant us Obama’s Super Duper Civil Unions even as he disagrees with his own denomination’s unique support for full equality. THAT would be “being more honest about where the candidates are.”

And is it the mental damage caused by apparently having seen Ethan Geto naked that causes him to remember Obama’s first dropping of the G-word as “[addressing] our community” when the entirety of what he said was, “and yes, we’ve got some gay friends in the Red States.” That’s the equivalent of saying, “Some of my best friends are gay”—the kind of pusillanimous pandering that a gay war horse like Roskoff was rightfully stomping on decades ago! Has this often excellent historian of our movement forgotten that Jesse Jackson included gays in his litany of groups making up “the American quilt” and, again, as a part of ”the Rainbow Coalition,” adding explicitly that, “No American citizen ought be denied equal protection from the law” in HIS Democratic National Convention keynote TWENTY-FOUR YEARS BEFORE Obama’s pussyfooting?

Roskoff is either guilty of “trying to sell damaged goods for reasons that don’t exist” or he’s another one of those who constantly “hear” things that Obama does NOT say, such as almost never joining “rights” or “equality” with the word gay when he sprinkles it here and yon? Has the “New York-based” movement veteran been out of town every year Sen. Clinton has marched in its Pride Parade, showing, as she did at the link below, that she’s NOT “afraid of getting taped.”

SEN. CLINTON’S PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR LGBTs ON VIDEO: cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=1749986n

Did he miss entirely the stories of Obama’s refusal to be photographed with the one straight Democratic official most associated with gay marriage equality, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom—even as Newsom was helping Big O2 raise money for his US Senate campaign?

It’s not surprising that he’s unaware that Obama has repeatedly lied about sponsoring/passing Illinois’ LGBT rights law—because gay media have either ignored the truth or printed the lies.

But did someone with Roskoff’s fine sense of smell of bullshit not go dizzy when he read Obama’s obvious backtracking on his promises to fight to overturn DADT in his second “Please Save My Ass” Advocate interview? Opposition to DADT wouldn’t be a “litmus test” for Obama’s military Chiefs of Staff? He insisted during the PA debate that, as Commander-In-Chief, he would demand that any Iraq invasion loving general follow his orders about withdrawal. But he doesn’t even have the nomination yet, let alone the keys to the White House, and he’s already waving a white Obama 2008 t-shirt with “I surrender on DADT” written on it.

Yes, we, too, miss the days of demanding more of our candidates. But Roskoff can’t excuse his failure to do his homework on Obama just because Sen. Clinton is a subject he’s been studying for a long time. And if he applied the same Politically Pure From the Womb standard to the long-publicly closeted Janis Ian that he does to Sen. Clinton he would not have posed with Ian for the picture above or been friends and crafty coconspirator for the greater good with the previously long-closeted Geto—who, last I looked, was a Sen. Clinton advisor.