Interesting, the number of commenters who think Obama’s switch to supporting gay marriage was a real change of opinion. It almost certainly wasn’t. His state legislative campaign in the 1990s said he was pro-gay marriage. That’s almost certainly been his real opinion all along, but state and national-level politics required him to either lie or lose.
I’m saying this while considering him the best president since FDR, but I’m not going to close my eyes to what was a political reality in Illinois and most of the country at the time, and how Obama reacted to it by deciding there were some things he had to lie about in order to generally do the right thing.
Interesting, the number of commenters who think Obama’s switch to supporting gay marriage was a real change of opinion. It almost certainly wasn’t. His state legislative campaign in the 1990s said he was pro-gay marriage. That’s almost certainly been his real opinion all along, but state and national-level politics required him to either lie or lose.
I’m saying this while considering him the best president since FDR, but I’m not going to close my eyes to what was a political reality in Illinois and most of the country at the time, and how Obama reacted to it by deciding there were some things he had to lie about in order to generally do the right thing.
Thanks to Ruben for reposting this comic.