Posted on 05/09/2012 9:01:57 PM PDT by MissesBush
The debate over same sex “marriage” has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. Then there is Barack Obama.
In his ABC interview, the president pretended that his much touted “evolution” had now led him, ineluctably, to speak out now, today; he simply could longer stay silent. ABC let him off the hook, but this is not a credible account. In March, the Washington Post was reporting the debate among his advisers on whether the issue would help or hurt the reelection campaign and what, therefore, Obama should say: “Obama’s top political advisers have held serious discussions with leading Democrats about the upsides and downsides of coming out for gay marriage before the fall election.”
The same advisers told the Post that Obama would make the decision based on his gut, but that is an insulting way to refer to the vice president. There is no evidence that Obama planned to speak until Joe Biden said last weekend that he was for gay “marriage” and forced the issue.
In fact, Obama has not “evolved”—he has changed his position whenever his political fortunes required him to do so. Running for the Illinois state senate from a trendy area of Chicago in 1996, he was for gay marriage. “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,” he wrote in answer to a questionnaire back then. In 2004, he was running for the U.S. Senate and needed to appeal to voters statewide. So he evolved, and favored civil unions but opposed homosexual “marriage.” In 2008, running for president, he said, “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.” Now in 2012, facing a tough reelection campaign where he needs energized supporters of gay “marriage” and has disappointed them with his refusal to give them his support, he is for it. To paraphrase John Kerry, he was for it before he was against it before he was for it again.
Mr. Obama’s statement today is a marvel:
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together; when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that ‘don't ask, don't tell’ is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
The president, when he says, “at a certain point I’ve just concluded,” appears to refer to the point where Joe Biden smoked him out, unintentionally no doubt (as are most of Biden’s actions). And it is important “for me personally” to speak, the president says; this isn’t politics, you see, but some kind of testimony, a baring of the soul.
But Mr. Obama actually did bare his soul unintentionally today (perhaps the Biden disease is catching) with his astonishing characterization of American fighting men and women, whom he referred to as “those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf.” Really?
Most Americans thought they were fighting for the country, not on Barack Obama’s behalf. Slip of the tongue, to be sure, but can one think of another president who’d have made it? They are fighting under his command, under his orders, to be sure, but this particular locution is offensive and solipsistic. Mr. Obama has switched his position on the sanctity of marriage back and forth and has a new one, again, today, revealed when politics made that advisable to him and to his campaign. Whether this is the end or he will “evolve” some more is anyone’s guess.
But let’s leave our soldiers out of this. They aren’t fighting for Mr. Obama and his campaign, and no one sent them out to risk their lives to win same sex “marriage.”
The nearest Obama shrine? That's your local sewage treatment plant.
The hubris is beyond the pale!
He’s one sick, dangerous and evil man.
I took the oath to support and defend the CONSTITUTION, not a pResident..or president..the CONSTITUTION!!!
And the oaths we took still stand.
I felt the same way last week when I was watching Jeopardy. I wasn’t really paying attention when all of a sudden Alex says, “...here’s the first lady...” and Michelle Obama appears on my tv screen giving the clues for some category about nutrition. I can’t remember all of the clues-—one of them was about some initiative that was passed praising Big Government in our lives, another was about ‘a vegetable that is the favorite of the leader of the free world.” I nearly barfed when I heard that one, but was not surprised. Those two LOVE their titles and use them at every available opportunity. How many times have you heard Obama call himself the CIC this past week? I don’t remember GWB referring to himself as the leader of the free world. Total narcissism on full display. I was hoping that one of the college kids would have given an answer like “What is a fake birth certificate, Alex?” or “Who is Larry Sinclair, Alex” just to knock these clowns down a few pegs for once.
Please tell me, exactly what benefit does the union of two gay guys give to society?
A deeply offended ping...
I wouldn’t vote for you for dog catcher
no offense
excellent !!
hat tip
( I’d even do more if I had a dimes worth of skills }
That is exactly the right question. As I see it, the economic benefits of marriage (sharing in spouses’ pensions, health insurance ets.) serve a social purpose in that they compensate a couple for bearing and raising children, an activity without which the nation could not survive. Two adult men, especially, should be compelled to earn their own keep during their working lives and to provide for their own retirements. The thought of a gay “widower” receiving his “spouse’s” bloated government pension (I’m sure gays are overrepresented in the pulic sector) on our dime is repulsive in that it represents a complete waste of resources vis a vis the needs of society.
“This Marine mom takes offense.”
This Marine Dad is right there with you.
I’d prefer to think my son did two tours, the last with his bomb sniffing dog, on behalf of ALL Americans...
Most Presidents have their speeches written by staffers and then checked for potential political problems by their political mavens.
Either Obama is writing his own stuff or the staffers have no sense of what political landmines they are creating.
Either way, it shows a mindset that isn’t very welcome to the public at large.
“I’d prefer to think my son did two tours, the last with his bomb sniffing dog, on behalf of ALL Americans...”
We KNOW he did.
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