Obama “annoying both sides of an equality debate simultaneously”

Steve Benen writing at The Washington Monthly: “We learned this week that President Obama, after less than two years in office, has already ‘appointed more openly gay officials than any other president in history’ . . . The far-right Alliance Defense Fund isn’t happy . . . To the far-right opponents of gay rights, President Obama is a disaster, advancing LGBT equality in ways conservatives have feared for years. At the exact same time, progressive supporters of gay rights are also convinced that President Obama is a disaster, failing to advance LGBT equality in ways they’d expected.”