Posted on 02/11/2015 2:11:48 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama is denying a former top political adviser's contention that he intentionally deceived voters about his position on gay marriage in an interview published Wednesday.
The president said David Axelrod, his former senior adviser, was “mixing up my personal feelings with my position on the issue” when he said Obama publicly backed civil unions rather than gay marriage because it was more politically palatable.
“I always felt that same-sex couples should be able to enjoy the same rights, legally, as anybody else and so it was frustrating to me not to, I think, be able to square that with what were a whole bunch of religious sensitivities out there,” Obama said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
The president said he sincerely felt that civil unions were “a sufficient way of squaring the circle,” but learned over time that gay couples felt they were stigmatized by being denied full access to marriage.
“I think the notion that somehow I was always in favor of marriage per se isn’t quite accurate,” Obama said.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said he would not "disagree or quibble" with Axelrod’s recollection.
In the book, Axelrod says Obama listened to campaign advisers who told him that it would be politically advantageous to support civil unions rather than full marriage.
"For as long as we had been working together, Obama had felt a tug between his personal views and the politics of gay marriage," Axelrod wrote.
"Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a 'sacred union.'"
Axelrod added that the president "never felt comfortable" with hiding his true position on the issue.
"He routinely stumbled over the question when it came up in debates or interviews. 'I'm just not very good at bulls---ting,' he said with a sigh after one such awkward exchange," Axelrod wrote.
In the interview with BuzzFeed, Obama argued that LGBT activists were likely happier with his administration — despite its muddled stance on marriage rights — because some of their goals were easier to achieve.
Obama chalked up the dramatic shift on marriage to “the willingness of people to recognize the regard they had for the LGBT communities or people in their families.”
“But part of it is also, frankly, that an issue like non-discrimination for the LGBT community is a little bit easier than the issues of inner-city poverty, right? You not discriminating against a gay person may require you to undergo some change of mind, but it doesn’t require you potentially calling on the government to provide more support for impoverished children so they’ve got more daycare that’s high quality,” he said.
Mislead is too soft a word. Blatant lie is the better phrase.
Did the Liar Of The Year mislead everyone about Husseincare?
One begins to wonder whether this utter a-hole EVER tells the truth about ANYTHING.
“But part of it is also, frankly, that an issue like non-discrimination for the LGBT community is a little bit easier than the issues of inner-city poverty, right? You not discriminating against a gay person may require you to undergo some change of mind, but it doesn’t require you potentially calling on the government to provide more support for impoverished children so they’ve got more daycare that’s high quality,”
So now, homosexuals are more important than urban black people. I wonder how many blacks will voice their complaints about that little gem.
Oh and that dig about that “whole bunch of religious sensitivities”. It doesn’t stop. I wonder, also, what his iman has to say about support for (and likely practice as) homosexuals.
That sentence is pure Obama SNOT.
Translation:
You might have to get your wrong-headed attitude adjusted but at least it isn’t as hard for you to fathom as giving up some of your money - what you so resent doing for a child in the inner city.
does this half breed EVER not lie?
“And don’t tell anybody about that muslim thingy, either” - Axelrod
He told the truth about the muslim call to prayer.
i didnt mislead voters - today
He deceived voters that he is not gay.
“Taquia” is never having to say your sorry or “I got caught lying”...
That should be the new talking point...
Owebama said between helping blacks or homosexuals, he decided to spend his time helping queers.
The blacks could be bought off with a cheap phone, and they always voted for dems anyway.
Taqqiya.
Why would he not mislead about anything?
Any idiot knew even at the time that it was pure political calculation. And it’s something our SCOTUS should know now. Just a few short years ago same sex marriage was a losing proposition throughout the USA. And Obama’s anti-same-sex marriage position is proof positive that the so-called ‘ripeness’ of this issue simply hasn’t happened. Thousands of years of human history, hundreds of years of US history, and the black robes want to pretend that this issue is ready for them to overturn an entire culture and the votes of the people.
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
It opposite day for Obama everyday.
Not just the Muslim aspect, though - the leftist ideology is rife with deceit.
I’m betting that if you brought this up to any sheeperal,
they’d first deny that he lied,
then justify his lie with something along the lines of
“he’d not have gotten elected to do the right thing for gay people if he’d let everyone know that’s what he’s going to do”.
Such as it always is with leftists. They lie about what they’re going to do in order to get the power to do what they are going to do.
They intentionally rule against the will of the people,
and justify it with a simple “I know better” attitude.
And groundhog day for us.
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