What do y’all think of Mo’ Dowd in today’s Times saying the Obama White house is too white?

nytimes.com

I thought this paragraph was odd. While I think Obama, for example, mishandled Rev. Jeremiah Wright—he should have defended him against out-of-context soundbites being used to attack him—why on earth does Dowd include “gays.”

It is very clear that Barack Obama doesn’t like gays.

The president appears completely comfortable in his own skin, but it seems he feels that he and Michelle are such a huge change for the nation to absorb that he can be overly cautious about pushing for other societal changes for blacks and gays. At some level, he acts like the election was enough; he shouldn’t have to deal with race further. But he does.

His closest advisers — some of the same ones who urged him not to make the race speech after the Rev. Jeremiah Wright issue exploded — are so terrified that Fox and the Tea Party will paint Obama as doing more for blacks that they tiptoe around and do less. “Who knew that the first black president would make it even harder on black people?” asked a top black Democratic official.