May 11, 2008

Obama’s gay-bashing buddy Kirbyjon Caldwell performs Jenna Bush’s wedding ceremony.

Just when Obama supporters were hoping the Jeremiah Wright flap had started to die down, and that Donnie McClurkin was already just a distant memory (as if), the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston’s Windsor Village United Methodist Church raises his ugly head, reminding voters all over again that Barack Obama’s choice of the company he keeps, frankly, sucks major weenies.

No doubt you heard that Jenna Bush, the snottier of George and Pickles’ two vacuous party-animal daughters, got married yesterday.

You remember Jenna; she’s one we’ve all seen pictured falling down drunk in a bar, the one who stuck her tongue out at reporters, the one who got busted using a fake I.D. (oops, sorry, that was Barbara), the one who was “underage-drinking” and smoking dope with Ashton Kutcher (oops, sorry, that was both twins).

Anyway, Jenna (who wore white *snort!*) married a geek (who parts his hair on one side as if this were 1964) named Henry Hager, who, we think, is perfect for her; he’s the son of John H. Hager, “Virginia’s first director of homeland security and a former lieutenant governor … [who in 2005] joined the Bush administration as an assistant secretary of education.” Henry himself interned for Karl Rove, and went on to work for the Bush-Cheney reSelection campaign.

(We wish Jenna and Henry everything they deserve in life. We only ask that they refrain from breeding.)

So, what’s the big deal about Kirbyjon Caldwell? Why should we care, or be surprised, that a right-wing preacher who somehow forgot about his own involvement in the “pray the gay away” movement joined a Bush Twin and her icky boyfriend in the bonds of unholy Republicanism? Caldwell is, after all, George W. Bush’s own “spiritual advisor.”

The big deal is this.

And if you don’t get the symbolism of “marrying” the Obama camp to the Radical Right camp once and for all, then you have no sense of irony whatsoever.

Which probably means you’re an Obama supporter. smirk