The "evolution" revolution
The Obama re-election campaign has launched a website promoting the president's purported "evolution" on the issue of gay marriage. The news has caused me to contemplate not the political implications of the president's newly outlined position, and not his more-accurately-described support for "state's rights" on the issue of gay marriage (which is almost the very opposite of support for federal executive protection for gay marriage rights), but instead, the ongoing, bewildering gullibility of Obama's "liberal" supporters and a little insert word here called "evolution."If the president's recent, supposedly-genuine civil rights epiphany fills you with a wave of "warm fuzzies," rather than cynical, raging anger, than you are, quite simply, a fool. Barack Obama has not "evolved" on this issue. He was publicly in favor of gay marriage rights way back in 2004. He only switched his position when he ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate for the first time. This is not mere speculation on my part. It's not a fabrication constructed from whole cloth by his political enemies. It's a matter of the public record. Obama has not "personally evolved" on this issue. He. Is. Lying. He has always supported it. Or maybe he never has. Who can tell when the guy makes his political decisions based on every other factor besides personal principle? What brave member of the Washington press corps will ask the president to explain his support for gay marriage rights a decade ago?
Be happy with his public announcement, or don't. Be satisfied, or don't. But for Christ's sake, be more cynical. Are you so used to being lied to at this point by all of them that you've abandoned your self-respect? Obama thinks you're dumb. Or so desperate for any political hero that you'll accept the shiniest one. He has not "evolved." He made a politically-expedient policy reversal eight years ago, and now he's making another one.
posted by CM @ 6:21 PM
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