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President Obama played dumb last night when he was in Beverly Hills raising money and made the LGBT community the butt of his joke. As the NY Times blog The Caucus reports:

A gaggle of sign-waving protestors milled around outside The Beverly Hilton, the sprawling hotel on Wilshire Boulevard. They must have caught the president’s eye when he arrived at the hotel from an earlier stop in Las Vegas because he relayed one of their messages to the crowd.

“One of them said, “Obama keep your promise,’ ” the president said. “I thought that’s fair. I don’t know which promise he was talking about.”

The people in the audience – who paid $30,400 per couple to attend – laughed as they ate a dinner of roasted tenderloin, grilled organic chicken and sun choke rosemary mashed potatoes.

That “gaggle” of sign-waving protestors was a couple hundred people asking President Obama to live up to his promise to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

Outside, Lt Dan Choi spoke at the protest, saying, “Love is so worth it:”