From Sullivan:
"Obama Flip Flops, Declares War On Marriage," - Fox Nation. Update: The editors subsequently changed the headline to "Obama Flip Flops On Gay Marriage". But a reader sends a screenshot for posterity:
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
From Sullivan:
"Obama Flip Flops, Declares War On Marriage," - Fox Nation. Update: The editors subsequently changed the headline to "Obama Flip Flops On Gay Marriage". But a reader sends a screenshot for posterity:
I am glad that Obama spoke up for gay marriage, but I kind wish he had done it before yesterday's vote. Then again, that vote is probably what prompted him to take a public stance.
It wouldn have been nice, Burrell, but the vote was so lopsided that Obama's endorsement wouldn't have made a difference.
Eh. I'm not too excited about it, because he still is all "states should decide!" which means he's not angling for federal bennies or anything. So...it changes nothing, for me.
After the Romney event where a woman was calling Obama a traitor, someone pointed out that for him to be a traitor he'd have to be a citizen ... not that THAT's going to stop any of the nonsense.
So, can we kill Michelle Bachmann now that she's a Swiss citizen? (SURELY there is some sort of "sitting legislators can't be citizens of other countries" law???)
Earlier would have been nice but this fits the slow and deliberate personality of Obama. At this point I am thinking better late than never. Better now than during the fall debates. I'm doubtful it would have made a difference in NC, but it is still a step in the right direction.
Michelle Bachmann's a Swiss citizen? Huh?
That was my reaction, Calli.
I am not convinced Bachman is human.
Yeah, I really doubt it would've changed much in the NC vote. The impression I had from people I talked to while canvassing & phonebanking was that engaged voters were almost uniformly aware of the issue - casual/irregular/non-political-junkies didn't even know what it was and it came down to the fact that the asshole lege stuck the vote on the day of the primary rather than the general election, and that most of the pro faction were hearing about it for months from their churches.
I hope (and please don't disabuse me of it - I'm still way too raw) that the fact that the universal "WTF" is so much greater than I remember with other states will combine with Obama's statement to start reframing the issue as a national civil rights question, as it should've been all along.
If it were (almost) any Rep. but Bachmann, I'd be worried she knew something I didn't(besides marital life with a gay man, I mean) But since it is Bachmann, she's probably cheating on her taxes.(She worked for the IRS...not hard, but she did.