President Obama Sends Me E-Mail

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President Obama Sends Me E-Mail

Posted on | May 10, 2012 | 4 Comments and 0 Reactions

Once you give Democrats your e-mail address, this kind of stuff just keeps showing up in your inbox:

Robert –

Today, I was asked a direct question and gave a direct answer:

I believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

I hope you’ll take a moment to watch the conversation, consider it, and weigh in yourself on behalf of marriage equality:

http://my.barackobama.com/Marriage

I’ve always believed that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally. I was reluctant to use the term marriage because of the very powerful traditions it evokes. And I thought civil union laws that conferred legal rights upon gay and lesbian couples were a solution.

But over the course of several years I’ve talked to friends and family about this. I’ve thought about members of my staff in long-term, committed, same-sex relationships who are raising kids together. Through our efforts to end the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, I’ve gotten to know some of the gay and lesbian troops who are serving our country with honor and distinction.

What I’ve come to realize is that for loving, same-sex couples, the denial of marriage equality means that, in their eyes and the eyes of their children, they are still considered less than full citizens.

Even at my own dinner table, when I look at Sasha and Malia, who have friends whose parents are same-sex couples, I know it wouldn’t dawn on them that their friends’ parents should be treated differently.

So I decided it was time to affirm my personal belief that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

I respect the beliefs of others, and the right of religious institutions to act in accordance with their own doctrines. But I believe that in the eyes of the law, all Americans should be treated equally. And where states enact same-sex marriage, no federal act should invalidate them.

If you agree, you can stand up with me here.

Thank you,

Barack

A few notes on this correspondence:

• It’s about him. It’s always about him.
  
• He congratulates himself on giving a direct answer to a question, because that doesn’t happen very often.
  
• He tells you which side of the argument to “weigh in” on.
  
• There are unnamed other people who do not believe ”that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally.”
  
• Obama, however, has always “believed that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally” and, once his big-money gay donors threatened to stop writing him checks, he decided maybe he should say that out loud on national TV, six months before Election Day.
  
• Also, Joe Biden had to go open his stupid mouth on national TV, which took away the option of saving this little surprise until after the election, damn it.
  
• Obama was previously “reluctant” because of “very powerful traditions,” and we all know how respectful he’s always been Read More http://theothermccain.com/2012/05/10/president-obama-sends-me-e-mail-2/
  

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President Obama has made a statement saying he endorses gay marriage and thinks is should not be a federal issue but that it should be a power left up to the states.

Coincidentally he has a big money fundraiser this weekend with gay activists.

So what was the difference between before and now? Money.

Kind of whorish, no? Imagine the gay community will notice that the evolution of Barack Obama came with a price tag?

 

Update: Yup they noticed.

 

Thanks to Howie at The Jawa Report 07:27 AM

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The Media and Barack Obama’s Pauline Kael Moment on Gay Marriage

 

 

Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)

Thursday, May 10th at 4:46AM EDT

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If you listen to Barack Obama’s statement to ABC News yesterday you’ll hear something not reflected in all the transcripts that went out yesterday. He said his administration gave up the legal fight to defend the Defense Against Marriage Act. It’s actually the Defense Of Marriage Act.

Obama claimed DOMA made marriage a federal issue and it should be a state issue. That’s a gross mischaracterization of DOMA, but for now that’s besides the point. Two days after major gay donors said they’d withhold funding from his campaign and one day before his swank $40,000.00 a person fundraiser with George Clooney, Barack Obama publicly reversed course on gay marriage. The Washington Free Beacon’s headline says it all: Gay For Pay.

Obama looks weak and under duress. He looks weak because he would not come out before the North Carolina vote and under duress because he only did so now as his donors held his campaign hostage. Now President Obama might as well be called President Dick Cheney. In addition to GTMO still in use and warrantless wiretaps still being deployed, Obama comes out in favor of the states’ individually deciding the issue while supporting it himself. It’s the gay marriage equivalent of being personally pro-life, but supporting a person’s right to choose. It is also, like GTMO and warrentless wiretaps, Dick Cheney’s position — a position the much maligned former Vice President held even after Obama went from being for gay marriage, to against gay marriage, to evolving on gay marriage.

But there is another angle to this as well. Read More

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/05/10/the-media-and-barack-obamas-pauline-kael-moment-on-gay-marriage/

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Every single sentence except the last two in that email has "I" in it.