A few days ago, I received an invitation from Kevin Jennings to an Obama fundraiser. It was apparently aimed at well-off members of New York's GLBTQ community. As much as I want to see marriage equality and other advances for our community, this invitation and other news about Obama's campaign have reinforced my impression that Democrats are completely blind to economic reality. By slicing off little pieces of the progressive agenda without tackling unemployment and inequality, they just reinforce the old image of elitism that the faux populist plutocrats in the Republican party have used against them ever since the 1970s.
The invitation and response are below the fold.