News Flash!! Evolution Now Complete: Obama Embraces Same-Sex Marriage

tabula rasa · May 9, 2012 at 9:32pm

After a long evolutionary process (longer, it seems, than actual evolutionary processes), our President has now embraced same-sex marriage.

Does anyone really believe that the President who refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act just came to this painful decision?

I don't see this playing well for him in the election. Thoughts?

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Feels like a blatant bit of pandering to buy himself some good favor with his base now that the election is warming up. Very conveniently timed, which only infuriates me more. I support civil partnerships, but this just feels like manipulation.

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May 9, 2012 at 9:33pm ·
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There'$ an advantage to courting $ingle-i$$ue voters, but I forget what it i$....

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The King Prawn

I think we know how it will play in North Carolina...

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etoiledunord: There'$ an advantage to courting $ingle-i$$ue voters, but I forget what it i$.... · _{1 minute ago}

This President is in trouble and he knows it.

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Charles Mark

You can't fool all of the people all of the time.

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It seems a startlingly clear signal to social conservative black voters in North Carolina and elsewhere: the president takes your vote for granted. I wonder?...

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May 9, 2012 at 9:38pm ·
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It's the ultimate contempt for the voters...like somehow we stupid rubes don't know what's going on.

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Would you say that was evolution into homo erectus?

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This news make the people already voting for Obama just a little more self-righteous. On the other hand, this will fire up the social-cons, that's for sure... All those Santorum supporters who saw Romney as squish on social issues? How does Romney look now?

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EJHill: Would you say that was evolution into homo erectus? · _{1 minute ago}

Based on what Biden said, I hope not. We don't need to see that.

Edited on May 9, 2012 at 9:43pm

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John O'Sullivan has the definitive take-down in the Corner.

But an evolving opinion seems to be something for which the opinion-former is not really responsible. It is more or less external to him. It sits there, maybe on a table in his office, maybe hidden away in a locked room, gradually changing its shape, perhaps pulsating, or giving off “vibes,” or sending forth a blue light, or emitting little electronic signals as yet indecipherable but likely — once we have mastered the code — to inform us how and as what the opinion will finally crystallize.

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etoiledunord: There'$ an advantage to courting $ingle-i$$ue voters, but I forget what it i$.... · _{7 minutes ago}

Let me throw out a guess: Love and Re$pect?

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Judging by the conversation over here, Obama probably just locked up Fred Cole's vote. ;-)

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And my Facebook feed has just exploded into triumph and glee. The 20-something year olds are just "moved to tears" and just "so proud" of their President. Sad that they're completely unaware that they're being played like a fiddle by a desperate Obama.

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Lady Bertrum

I think he's (Obama) in serious trouble. His internal polling might be telling him to panic. If he's willing to take this position now (in favor of SSM) then he's given up entirely on white working class men and married women. He's in big trouble with his Wall Street donors and looking to make up the funds from the gay community. Really? That's gonna work? Color me doubtful.

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Diane Ellis, Ed.: And my Facebook feed has just exploded into triumph and glee. The 20-something year olds are just "moved to tears" and just "so proud" of their President. Sad that they're completely unaware that they're being played like a fiddle by a desperate Obama. · _{2 minutes ago}

My facebook feed has been pretty insufferable today. I mean the 40% are really really really really ticked and are looking to yell at someone.

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Ahem. Called it!

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katievs: John O'Sullivan has the definitive take-down in the Corner.

But an evolving opinion seems to be something for which the opinion-former is not really responsible. It is more or less external to him. It sits there, maybe on a table in his office, maybe hidden away in a locked room, gradually changing its shape, perhaps pulsating, or giving off “vibes,” or sending forth a blue light, or emitting little electronic signals as yet indecipherable but likely — once we have mastered the code — to inform us how and as what the opinion will finally crystallize.

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Bernie Madoff's investment strategies always evolved in the direction of easy solutions to difficult problems too.

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An announcement like this the morning after a terrible night for liberals (Walker routing the unions in Wisconsin, the Tea Party defeating Lugar, the dem convention state voting against gay marriage, and a felon giving the president a close race in WV)? I question the timing!

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katievs: John O'Sullivan has the definitive take-down in the Corner.

But an evolving opinion seems to be something for which the opinion-former is not really responsible. It is more or less external to him. It sits there, maybe on a table in his office, maybe hidden away in a locked room, gradually changing its shape, perhaps pulsating, or giving off “vibes,” or sending forth a blue light, or emitting little electronic signals as yet indecipherable but likely — once we have mastered the code — to inform us how and as what the opinion will finally crystallize.

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This is consistent with Obama's past. He adopts really popular positions based on his incorruptible goodness. Issues like same-sex marriage, which might hurt him politically, are of the type Mr. O'Sullivan describes: a bright, pulsating light drove him to it.

By the way, Mr. Romney was quoted as saying that he opposes same-sex marriage, and that this is not a position that will change.

Well, we have yet another stark difference to help us decide whom to support.

Edited on May 9, 2012 at 9:54pm