Excerpt: "That's always been the rationale for Obama's dawdling. Don't rock the boat in North Carolina - or Florida or Virginia or Colorado - by speaking out on gay marriage until after November 6 has passed."
President Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage yesterday. (photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images)
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This is a baseless and cynical cheap shot worthy of a Republican in Democrat's clothing. Who do you work for, Mr. Rich? Are you a gay person with so much self-loathing that you can't imagine three-dimension al straight people with good will toward gays having complex feelings about complex issues?
It just so happens that a lot of people with no animus toward gays, people with beloved family members who are gay, people whose natural sympathies lie with those who are persecuted by self-righteous brutes, might have to struggle with questions that have no simple answers for them?
In short, grow up.
He should have come out and supported gays in the beginning of his term when still closely tied to the previous administration since VP Cheney's daughter was publicly acknowledged and accepted. However, in light of the current financial crisis and failing economy sinking deeper like the Titanic on a daily basis... Religion, marriage, sexual preference, etc. are the least of the average American's concerns....and frankly issues that the government should stay the hell out of.
We are in a financial force majeure neither party has adequately addressed, provided platforms or solutions to correct. Obama has been in office for nearly 4 years on the same path, with the same advisors, with a "plan" that has not been working.
I'm glad he's for gays...it's better than watching him play basketball with the Globe Trotters. Enough said. Enough media attention on the subject. Now get back to work and pay attention to the really, really serious financial issues.
BTW - I know gay couples that have been wrongfully evicted from their homes. I don't think this new posturing is going politically influence them and cause them to donate to the Obama camp.
This is 'Evolved'?
He is a killer, thief and a liar.
Enjoy your Gay Marriage 'Bone'.
Obama, and my Government, have no business even commenting on who I marry.
Who they kill, invasively feel-up, and Intimidate, what they steal, who they lie to.....
This ....matters.
"Obama, and my Government, have no business even commenting on who I marry."
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It is very much the government’s business. Marriage is under the control of society in every country in the world. Without social and legal recognition a marriage is no more than a personal statement by a couple. By speaking up for that recognition to be without discrimination on who the couple are, Obama has added the voice of the President of the United States to the growing but still tenuous social recognition of marriage free of discrimination. That is historic. When there is a clear majority for non-discriminat ion throughout the land, THEN it will no longer require a courageous political gamble for a president to speak up for it.
I worked in NYC on Broadway as stage support and I have to tell you that you are way out of touch with the demographic of Broadway performers. The majority of people of people working in the theatre in NY are straight as a desert road. What they are not is prejudice towards the people who deliver their profits 8 times a week wether they are straight or not.
This must be addressed immediately and our leadership is yet promoting MORE nuclear rather than expose the fact that we have 31 identical plants here. This is no time for playing politics. Our country's name has been badly tarnished if not made downright villainous in recent years. We have the equipment needed to help stop a worldwide catastrophe. The Japanese cannot do it alone. It is a matter of national and international security which will not wait and cannot be hidden in a closet.
And this isn't the first time that Obama took a stand on a potentially explosive issue related to right-wingers beliefs. He signed the stem-cell bill into law very early in his term after Bush vetoed it twice (and it was passed by a bipartisan congress.) The issue wasn't funding in that case; it was allowing the FDA to permit embryonic stem-cell research. The only reason this hasn't been a huge issue so far... oh, I don't want to be mean... but I don't think most right-wingers are smart enough to understand what's going on with stem-cell research. We are on the verge of an incredible breakthrough in retinal research. Many millions of blind people will see again-- IF this research is permitted to go forward. But it can't be done without an embryo. It's a miracle that it hasn't been blown up into a political fireball-- yet. Few people understand just how much courage it took for Obama to sign that bill. So it's happened before.
Obama is a good campaigner. He says bold things in a campaign and then as president he wimps out and lets the neo-cons wipe the floor with him. Anti same sex marriage is the issue of the lunatic right wing and now they will fume over it for the whole election season. The hard right base will be energized, but no one else will. The swing voters either don't care or moderately favor equal rights for same sex couples.
Obama's pandering for votes is just as bad to my mind. And Barbara K., before you spout your own brand of reactionary drivel, not everyone and everything can be reduced to the polarized choices we're presented with. It doesn't matter if the Yankees or the Dodgers are at bat, they're still playing baseball. Someone else made the rules, and the umpire still calls what he wants to throw the game. Good luck to you all.
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