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Yeah, but the fact that he's merely the lesser evil enables the Obama administration to waffle. That's bullshit and we shouldn't stand for it.

cat & beard on May 8, 2012 at 2:16 PM

Obama is a politician above and beyond anything else. When it comes to the political calculus (during an election year) he simply has nothing to gain from taking a more progressive stance on gay marriage.
That is, simply, as complicated as this is right now.

If you could push a button and turn him into Dan Savage, ideologically, on the gay marriage debate right now, would you do it? Knowing all the millions of people who are nominally behind him and will vote for him this fall, who would run out of his camp with their hair on fire the second he started wholeheartedly supporting it?
Really, think about that question.... and think about what it would be like to have another Republican back in the white house right now, after 8 years of Bush... and while our entire country is on the brink of going back into the abyss.

lyle on May 8, 2012 at 2:29 PM

Why would he show full support for the gay community while trying to be reelected? May as well just jump out of the race. One thing you can say about Obama: he's not stupid. Probably leading from behind till he gets back in and then embrace the gay community and be more outspoken with it. He can only serve 1 more term. That would be the time to fight for the gay community. Think/hope that's his plan.

on May 8, 2012 at 2:34 PM

I always thought it was the republicans who were secretly behind all the legalizing of gay marriage just prior to the 2004 elections, leaving just the right amount of time for them to come up with anti-gay marriage ammendments and campaigns that swept the country in their favor.

on May 8, 2012 at 2:43 PM