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Rumor: Obama Will Endorse Same-Sex Marriage In Tuesday’s State Of The Union
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen ^ | January 20, 2012 | Elias Isquith

Posted on 01/20/2012 10:02:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

From Washington Blade:

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Friday he wouldn’t rule “in or out” the possibility of President Obama endorsing same-sex marriage in the upcoming State of the Union address.

Carney made the remarks on whether Obama would announce support for marriage equality during the State of the Union address, which is set to take place Tuesday before a joint session of Congress, in response to a question from the Washington Blade.

“I will not rule anything in or out,” Carney said. “I’m just not going to talk about — beyond pointing at his words — his personal views on this. I think his administration’s policies on related issues are there for people to judge.”

Most people of reasonable intelligence and common sense have long figured that the President’s declared ambivalence about gay marriage was a crock; and I think more than a few others were, like myself, of the opinion that he’d throw his weight behind SSM if he were lucky enough to get a second term. The assumption behind that supposition and that scenario is that there’s no upside to the President publicly endorsing the normative definition of marriage of his class, and that there was considerable downside in his doing so.

None other than Dan Savage himself explained why:

While national polls show a slim majority of Americans now support marriage equality, supporters of marriage equality aren’t evenly distributed throughout all 50 states. They’re over-represented in populous blue states that Obama is going to carry, under-represented in purple states that he needs to carry, and thin in the ground in red states that he has no hope of carrying. Electoral College Goddam. And maybe I’m a pessimist… but… I don’t think Obama endorsing marriage equality would convince any Republicans who support marriage equality (all six of them) to vote for him, I don’t think it by itself would convince independents to vote for him, and I think it would convince some conservative Democrats to vote against him.

What I think we’re all forgetting — or couldn’t have known all the way back in 2011, when Savage wrote the above — is that, in an almost deliciously ironic twist, Team Obama has decided to run in 2012 a base-centric campaign the likes of which we haven’t seen since… well, the last time an embattled and divisive President was going for reelection. And that’s pretty interesting in and of itself; it used to be the absolute most ironclad conventional wisdom of American politics that one could not win the White House unless one tilted (sometimes to the point of becoming horizontal) to the median voter.

But this country’s political system has changed dramatically in the past generation, and the mushy middle has increasingly receded as voters gravitated towards one ideological pole or another. In a more or less evenly-divided country, playing towards the base — implementing the Rovian 50%+1 strategy — makes a lot of sense. Still, we’re slow to recognize the kind of sociological change this would reflect, and generally we only see it for what it is after it’s long been standing in front of our noses.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2012; bhofascism; bhosotu; corruption; democrats; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; liberals; moralabsolutes; nobama2012; obama; progressives; samesexmarriage; sotu
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The fact that the Washington Blade is accredited to the White House press office tells you all you really need to know about the Obama administration.
1 posted on 01/20/2012 10:02:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So Obama is FINALLY going to come out of the closet..about damn time..Its always been pretty obvious that Obama well, prefers the company of men


2 posted on 01/20/2012 10:06:09 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I imagine he would since he’s already in one.


3 posted on 01/20/2012 10:06:34 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More evil, evil, evil.


4 posted on 01/20/2012 10:07:57 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: chris37

I thought he already had.


5 posted on 01/20/2012 10:08:14 PM PST by gswilder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties;

for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses....

-Juvenal, Ancient Rome


6 posted on 01/20/2012 10:09:46 PM PST by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No surprise here - Gays in the Military and refusing to defend DOMA, passed by previous Congress and signed previous President.

I BELIEVE ZERO CALLS IT "THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA, DOING THE PEOPLE'S WORK" (you know the work the people's Representatives refuse to do!!!).
7 posted on 01/20/2012 10:10:13 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reggie must have finally proposed!


8 posted on 01/20/2012 10:10:26 PM PST by Smokeyblue (Obama's got NBC problems and birth certificate problems - a bad case of Cluster F**ked.)
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To: unkus

I’m sure all the unemployed welders, pipe-layers, electricians, engineers, heavy construction etc will be very pleased that gays are getting their every wish with zero and everybody else can bugger off if they don’t like his pipeline decision.


9 posted on 01/20/2012 10:12:25 PM PST by txhurl (WELL, Santorum? Still in it for yourself?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Well good grief he married a woman that looks more like a man than he does. Of course that’s his preference.

And this isn’t about getting more votes. It’s about getting all the homosexuals’ money for his campaign. When you’re making money, your AIDS drugs are heavily subsidized by far less risky breeder taxpayers, and don’t have a family that uses up your money, that’s a lot of moola moola to give to the guy who’s passing all the gay special protected class laws for ya.


10 posted on 01/20/2012 10:14:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is also going to admit his marriage is a sham and he is a homosexual.


11 posted on 01/20/2012 10:17:38 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: svcw
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12 posted on 01/20/2012 10:21:56 PM PST by One Name
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go ahead.....Make everyone’s day.


13 posted on 01/20/2012 10:23:16 PM PST by o-n-money
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14 posted on 01/20/2012 10:23:19 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will this help or hurt in the election? I can’t imagine it going over very well in middle America.

As for the cities where the gays live — they’re all Democrap strongholds anyhow.


15 posted on 01/20/2012 10:27:40 PM PST by Ronin (If we were serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent, we would bring back public hangings)
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To: txhurl

I’m sure all the unemployed welders, pipe-layers, electricians, engineers, heavy construction etc will be very pleased that gays are getting their every wish with zero and everybody else can bugger off if they don’t like his pipeline decision.


It’s already being blamed on the republicans and most of the people you mention will go along with that.

We’re in a sick, upside down world where good is made to look bad and bad to look good.


16 posted on 01/20/2012 10:42:14 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’ll probably have 2 guys in a liplock sitting next to Moochelle in the gallery.


17 posted on 01/20/2012 10:55:30 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I’m announcing tonight, that Michelle has already approved our ‘open marriage’ ... Let the good times roll!”


18 posted on 01/20/2012 10:58:45 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So does this mean that Rupert Murdoch will order up a very special episode of “Glee”??


19 posted on 01/20/2012 11:02:31 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: dragonblustar
LMAO... I don't care who you are, that's funny right there!!

Groucho of Arabia....! hee hee....

20 posted on 01/20/2012 11:22:29 PM PST by ponygirl
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