Back in July, when the LGBT Obama backlash reached a peak with the now-infamous crazy DOMA brief, gay Obama campaign staffer Steve Hildebrand gave an interview to Rex Wockner. In it, Hildebrand urged the LGBT population to be patient with Obama and reminded us that the President was still on our side.
Now, however, in a new interview with Politico, Hildebrand himself has had enough. From Politico:
“I am one of the millions of frustrated Americans who want to see Washington do more than it’s doing right now,” said Steve Hildebrand, the deputy campaign manager who oversaw the Obama campaign’s field organization and was an architect of his early, crucial victories over Sen. Hillary Clinton in Iowa and South Carolina.
. . . “I’m not going to just sit by the curb and let these folks get away with a lack of performance for the American people,” he said, speaking of Washington’s Democratic leadership as a whole. “I want change just as much as a majority of Americans do, and I’m one of the many Americans who are losing patience.”
Hildebrand is by far the most senior member of Obama’s political team to oublicly express doubts about Obama and the White House, Press Secretary Gibbs responded to Hildebrand’s words:
We all know and love Steve Hildebrand. There’s nothing in there we haven’t all heard from him. But, look, I think Steve’s frustration is the frustration of people not only in this town but a lot of people outside of this town — and that is Washington’s inability to address big problems and get something done.
Watch the video of Gibbs.
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