During a podcast on Wednesday, former President Barack Obama stated that every male friend group needs to have a token gay guy in it. One has to wonder if he’s submitting his application for the role. Then again, he’s not going to have much luck among liberals. No such thing as Democrat male friendship groups because they’re all made of women.
Obama made his strange claim during an episode of his wife, Michelle Obama’s “IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson” in which the couple also discussed the rampant rumors of divorce running round and round the internet. He tried to make the case that if you want your friend group to be legitimate and inclusive, you have to have the token gay in it.
“One of the most valuable things I learned as a guy was I had a gay professor in college at a time when openly gay folks still weren’t out a lot — who became one of my favorite professors — and was a great guy and would call me out when I started saying stuff that was ignorant,” the former president stated during the show. “You need that! To show empathy and kindness.”
“And by the way, you need that person in your friend group so that if you then have a boy who is gay or non-binary or what have you, they have somebody that they can go, ‘Okay, I’m not alone in this,’ right?” he continued. “So that, I think, is — creating that community — I know it’s corny, but that’s what they need.”
Again, this sounds almost autobiographical. Is Obama secretly alluding to himself as the “gay friend,” expressing his desire to be surrounded by beefy, masculine men with super high testosterone levels? I kid of course.
Or do I?
via The Daily Caller:
The former president, when he was 21-years-old, wrote to his ex-girlfriend Alex McNear that he “make[s] love to men daily, but in the imagination,” according to a letter the New York Post obtained from Obama biographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow.
“In regard to homosexuality, I must say that I believe this is an attempt to remove oneself from the present, a refusal perhaps to perpetuate the endless farce of earthly life,” Obama wrote to McNear, according to the NYP. “You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.”
“My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so until I can think in terms of people, not women as opposed to men,” he said in the letter, according to a report from the NYP. “But, in returning to the body, I see that I have been made a man, and physically in life, I choose to accept that contingency.”
Moreover, Garrow wrote in “Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama” about the former president’s two years at Occidental College and his close relationship with his openly gay assistant professor Lawrence Goldyn.
Rumors of divorce started popping off on the internet after the former first lady skipped both the funeral of the late President Jimmy Carter and the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January. However, on her show, she stated she’s never considered divorcing her husband.
“There hasn’t been one moment in our marriage where I thought about quitting on my man. And we’ve had some really hard times … a lot of fun times, a lot of adventures,” the former first lady remarked. “And I have become a better person because of the man I’m married to.”
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