Do you remember when the White House and the power of the presidency and administration and all of its history and ambiance stood for something special and dignified?  Well, that ship has sailed.

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, announced yesterday that her Department played an instrumental role in “sealing the deal” for Madonna-wannabe Lady Gaga to perform at a gay pride rally in Rome, Italy.

Beeming with pride, Clinton cited a letter that David Thorne, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, sent to Lady Gaga urging her to participate in the event. Madam Secretary said:

And then there is the work that our embassy team in Rome has been doing. Two weeks ago they played an instrumental role in bringing Lady Gaga to Italy for a Euro Pride concert.

Now as many of you know Lady Gaga is Italian American and a strong supporter of LGBT rights. And the organizers of the Euro Pride event desperately wanted her to perform and a letter to her from Ambassador Thorne was instrumental in sealing the deal.

What will our Administration’s Muslim allies think about this?

Secretary Clinton’s announcement was made at the State Department during a celebration of LGBT Pride Month, co-hosted by the department and Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA), a group that, per its website, “represents lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) personnel and their families in the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Commercial Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, and other foreign affairs agencies and offices in the U.S. Government.”

To quote Dana Carvey’s Church Lady:  Well, now…isn’t that…special?

Lady Gaga performed at a rally at the ancient Circus Maximus in Rome, Italy on June 11th. The rally followed a gay pride march through the city of Rome.

Gaga made the news earlier this year when she released her song “Judas” in early May. In the video, Gaga is a Mary Magdalene figure–in a motorcycle gang—who becomes enamored with Judas.

According to billboard.com:

The video opens with a motorcycle gang cruising down a freeway, as Gaga clutches onto a Jesus-like figure who wears a golden crown of thorns.

Lyrics include:

Oh, I’m in love with Judas, Judas. In the most Biblical sense I am beyond repentance. Fame hooker, prostitute wench, vomits her mind.

And our tax money is supporting this?  The Obama Administration has alienated all of our allies and embraced our enemies.  The Mid-East is ablaze in Islamic Revolution, and their focus is a Gay pride Rally in Italy?

Am I missing something here?

This comes a month after the Obamas hosted a poetry ceremony at the White House featuring rapper and actor Common.

Common, a friend of Obama’s former pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose real name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., has been a staunch defender of the racially-oriented pastor, and also has unleashed rapping attacks on former President George W. Bush.

While Common is not identified as a gangsta rapper, some of his songs and poems do feature violent imagery. For instance, in one poem, he called for the metaphorical burning of President George W. Bush — a “burning Bush.”

Obama more than likely met Common at Trinity United Church of Christ. Wright retired as pastor there in 2008, the same year that Obama ended his relationship with Wright after videos of his racially-charged, anti-American sermons became a campaign issue.

As you may remember, in the sermons, Wright called the U.S. government racist and in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he proclaimed that “America’s chickens are coming home to roost” after it dropped atomic bombs on Japan and “supported state terrorism against Palestinians and black South Africans.”

At first, Obama stood behind Wright but later disowned him for the purposes of political expediency.

Common, however, still stands behind Wright, as he told the Electronic Urban Report in 2008:

He never really was against white people or another race. It was more against an establishment that was oppressing people. I think we all can see that this country has problems and a lot of it starts in the political system.

According to the rapper, during the 2008 presidential race, Wright’s sermons were filled with love, not hate:

What I picked up from the pews…was messages of love. Anything that was going on against that love he would acknowledge and expose. He’s been a preacher that’s helped raise one of the greatest political figures in the world, and hopefully, the next president. He’s also raised one of the greatest rappers in the world.

In a 2007 poem titled “A Letter to the Law,” Common pontificated against the U.S. invasion of Iraq while urban areas were being neglected:

Seeing a fiend being hung/With that happening, why they messing with Saddam?

Burn a Bush cos’ for peace he no push no button/Killing over oil and grease/no weapons of destruction.

Classy.

Speaking of class, it looks like Obama has filmed a campaign ad for his re-election drive at the place he “stays”…the People’s House.

Per Jim Geraghty at NRO the following ad shot for Obama’s re-election campaign, appears to have originated in the White House.

In the video, Obama promotes a “Dinner With Barack” raffle. To participate in the contest you need to donate at least $5 to the president’s re-election campaign and your name will be raffled off to enjoy a dinner with the President, airfare and accommodations included. In a new web video, Obama announced Vice President Joe Biden will also be attending the dinner.

If that’s true, it would be a possible violation of Federal Election Commission Laws.

It’s already a violation of the dignity of the office.  But, that’s nothing new.

Dignity has not exactly been a byword for this administration.