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Two reasons why Obama screwed up on Gay Marriage (vanity)
Self | 5/10/2012 | Sefl

Posted on 05/10/2012 5:43:37 PM PDT by Signalman

1. I was listening to the Hugh Hewitt show a few hours ago and a guy called in, a medical employee at a hospital. He said that he happened to be checking out two Black patients in different rooms who had no connection to each other. Both of them had family members visiting them. In both situations, the subject of Obama approving gay marriage came up and in both cases, the family members were irate and said they were going to "stay home" on election day. Sure, it's anecdotal but it could be significant. Blacks have a higher rate of opposition to gay marriage than any other ethnic group.

2. A recent poll in the state of Ohio showed that a whopping 62 percent of voters OPPOSED gay marriage. In a closely fought state swing state like Ohio, which Obama badly needs, this could make quite a difference in the outcome.

I think Obama made, politically, a huge mistake.


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1 posted on 05/10/2012 5:43:43 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Signalman

True, a little proof or anecdotal evidence:

Blcak voters in North Carolina supported Amendment 1 by 2 to 1 margin. Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/10/black-voters-in-nc-supported-amendment-one-by-2-1-margin/


2 posted on 05/10/2012 5:51:05 PM PDT by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Signalman

Yes, Obama clearly has jumped the shark....AGAIN.


3 posted on 05/10/2012 5:51:15 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Signalman
The problem is that there is little separation between Romney's and Obama’s policy on gay marriage
4 posted on 05/10/2012 5:54:16 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Signalman

He is intentionally pushing the envelope. It is almost like he believes there is no way he will be removed.


5 posted on 05/10/2012 5:55:07 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: EagleUSA

Obama was going to be outed by his homo Hollyweird donors if he didn’t do what he did. It was blackmail, democrat style.


6 posted on 05/10/2012 5:55:14 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: Signalman

Agreed. I was visiting online with some friends last night, several of whom are black. One said that this was a “tangible reason” for blacks to not vote for Obama. He said they probably won’t vote for Romney, but they won’t turn out for Obama in nearly the numbers they did in 2008.


7 posted on 05/10/2012 5:59:45 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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To: jimbo123

“...Obama was going to be outed by his homo Hollyweird donors if he didn’t do what he did. It was blackmail, democrat style.”

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I agree. EVERYTHING he does is either for money and/or votes. And when it comes to America, he only does things TO America, never FOR America.


8 posted on 05/10/2012 6:00:51 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Signalman

I don’t see any way it can help him. Anyone with those beliefs were already voting for him anyway. The only thing it can do is drive some voters away.


9 posted on 05/10/2012 6:01:12 PM PDT by nodumbblonde ("The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Signalman
I think Obama made, politically, a huge mistake.

Obama's biggest vulnerability is the economy, which continues to stagger toward oblivion. Anything which gets attention off economic matters helps Obama - that's why Obama started this latest little dust-up in the culture wars with his views on a subject the POTUS has no authority over. And it's working - the headlines and pundits are all busy talking about gay marriage instead of the latest round of appalling jobs numbers.
10 posted on 05/10/2012 6:01:19 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Signalman

Wonder what Biden’s role really was? Planned? If so, by Obama or was it an inside hit job?


11 posted on 05/10/2012 6:05:12 PM PDT by IamConservative (Shall I try and perhaps fail or shall I do nothing without fail?)
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To: TexasNative2000

And I agree as well. A good friend of mine (happens to be African-American) told me that blacks really resent the way gays constantly compare themselves to the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 60’s. Blacks view that as THEIR struggle, rightly so in my opinion, and they do not care for the way a bunch of privilged white folks of bad moral character are highjacking the civil right legacy for their dubious purposes.


12 posted on 05/10/2012 6:05:44 PM PDT by Martin Tell (ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it)
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To: Signalman

Two calculations went into his coming out. 1. He believed that it wouldn’t cost him many votes. He figures it will be a non-issue by November and 2. Money.


13 posted on 05/10/2012 6:06:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: Signalman
To know how badly this idiot stepped in it, just remember that CA approved Prop 8 with the wholehearted support of blacks. In fact, I know a popular black televangelist pastor who was scorned by libs because he helped lead the fight against homosexual marriage.
14 posted on 05/10/2012 6:08:00 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: Signalman

0bama needed some stash.


15 posted on 05/10/2012 6:08:35 PM PDT by A message
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To: A message

And Sasha and Malia told him so.


16 posted on 05/10/2012 6:12:04 PM PDT by A message
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To: Martin Tell

EXACTLY. One of my friends mentioned that. Many Blacks correctly view the civil rights struggle on moral grounds - you can’t discriminate on the basis of how God made you - and they don’t think that God creates homosexuality. They view it as a choice and they do NOT like having that mantle assumed by gays.


17 posted on 05/10/2012 6:12:11 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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To: jimbo123

Oh....I think you are absolutely correct....it is the Chicago Way. Homosexuals are desperate to get all their Marxists in place to program and condition children in the schools into thinking up is down-—evil is good. As soon as zero is out, the homosexual promoting school czar who loves boys having sex with old men, will definitely be booted—and with him the pro-sick curricula.

Everyone should get their kids out of public schools until the homosexuals can not indoctrinate and sexualize children. Hold Jerry Brown for sexualization of your children and force him to get the Marxist’s Sex Education OUT of the schools and arrest his buddy producers who were sodomizing the Corey boys at their orgies. Maybe Brown is exactly like his idol—John Maynard Keynes who was using little boys at his homosexual orgies. The Hollywood gang are Satanic worshipers-—homosexuality is their connection to excrement—and a life giving force....it is what they do at their altars. Better yet-—destroy DOE—it is all so unconstitutional on ALL levels.

Homosexual “Rights” is absurd-—the right to put your organ in a disgusting place is “love”. Ya—Right.....that is soooooooo logical.....the basis of our Constitution in the “Age of Reason”. How reasonable to make little boys think sodomy is good......great idea........for a Afghanistan like worldview for the boys-—who are in harems for the use of the old men.


18 posted on 05/10/2012 6:17:48 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: LS
"this idiot stepped in it"

Longer term, a Jewish friend of mine said he may just have blown florida with the independent Jews. Interesting thought.

19 posted on 05/10/2012 6:17:52 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Any Republican. Just NO Obama.)
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To: Martin Tell

Thought when I first heard it a comment made in a discussion years ago by a friend who joked about her permanent tan. She said (in the late seventies) when another friend argued that one day the conservative democrats in the south and the mid-western conservative republicans would merge. She said way back then that someday a religious issue would trigger the Christian African Americans to join with them.....Has the time come: The uniting of three conservative facets creating a “New political party”?

OTOH BO and MO only know what REV Wright has told them....acceptance of all things liberal.


20 posted on 05/10/2012 6:20:48 PM PDT by hoosiermama
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