Obama comes out in support of gay marriage...Follow

...way to balls up! Obama says same-sex marriage should be legal

Nexa

hahaha, oh fox news: OBAMA FLIP FLOPS, DECLARES WAR ON MARRIAGE

It's like the Onion.

Nexa

This news made my day.

I was wondering if this was coming, or if Grandpa Joe was just letting his mind wander off-message again this past weekend.

Good on you, Obama. Now if only his track record of delivering on election-year promises was slightly better (see: Bay, Guantanamo).

He "ended" the Iraq thing. I have no idea what the current situation is like over there, but that was what was promised. Healthcare reform turned out to be a fiasco, he extended the Patriot Act and put that new thing into place that allows for indefinite detention. I'm not sold.

"It's not my fault I made promises I couldn't keep" isn't exactly a resounding excuse.

Did you mean the Congress the Democrats had control of for the first 2 years of his presidency, or was this some fictional Congress you imagined up as being anti-Obama?

Even when all 100 members of the Senate actually sort of agree on something, they'll split themselves down party lines half the time simply because they have a pathological inability to admit the other guy might be right.

Does a super majority support the president 100% of the time? I hope not. If I wanted unthinking partisan loyalty, I'd vote Republican.

Long overdue, and glad that he was able to have that personal growth. Not sure how much he can do at the executive level, if anything. A federal law would have to be passed by Congress, and I know we're not there yet. I hope when we do get there that there is a sympathetic President in office who won't veto. So much needs to line up to give people a right that they should have never been denied in the first place.

What a surprise! It's almost like no one predicted this like 5 years ago or anything. I mean, what are the odds that Obama would insist he holds one position when he wants to avoid political conflict over it and instead focus on the economic record of the opposing party, but then switches to the exact opposite position when he's desperate for an issue, any issue to be the focus instead of his massively horrible economic record. Shocking I say. Shocking!


Partisan sniping aside, I understand why he felt had to make this move, but I don't think it's a good one. The folks he appeases with this were going to vote for him anyway. But there are a lot of Dem voters who aren't as on board with the whole gay marriage thing and most of them were folks he was in danger of losing already (mostly blue collar workers who've been hit hard economically as it is). This could tip a lot of votes away from him with little or no gain. I'm just not sure how much value they'll really get by putting this issue on the table. Sure, they get to zero in on the most extreme responses from the right and paint the GOP as gay haters, but they do that already. The concern is that now they'll be applying that label to folks who might otherwise have voted for them.

Just seems like this is the wrong issue and the wrong time to pull a "you're either with us or against us" move.

Pretty sure there's a cave painting of it somewhere.

I think this will excite the base a bit. By base, I mean all those college kids he had out stomping around for him in 07/08. This should level into more of a positive than a negative with more fundraising and a higher excitement level than the recent "ho-hum" attitude. Especially when Romney inserts his foot in his mouth by stating he supports DOMA. I would think due to previous arguments gbaji, you almost have to support Obama at the poll due to Mittens clearly overstepping his bounds in what the right views as a states issue.