Time for the Queerty Week in Comments, with the most compelling, thought-provoking or just downright bitchy comments that came directly from you, the readers!
“Do not be mistaken in thinking the North Carolina ban wouldn’t have passed if he shifted his stance earlier. Obama does not have the power to change minds, contrary to what many believe. If Obama came out in support of gay marriage on Monday, the amendment still would’ve passed and the media would then label gay marriage a political loser, an albatross hung around the president’s neck. Him not coming out until after the amendment passed was a calculated decision and one in which I’m in agreement.”
Michael W. is on the President’s side, in BREAKING: President Obama Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage
“I’ve done a COMPLETE 360 on Obama in the past 24 hours. I had written him off and was done with politics this time last night. Now, I have taken ownership with this guy as MY President. He is my Abraham Lincoln.”
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tinkerbell is another supporter of Obama, in QUESTION: Did Obama Say The Right Thing On Gay Marriage – And Was It The Right Time?
“Oh Barack, you bake us a beautiful cake and then you just had to sneeze on it, didn’t you?”
Good grief isn’t so happy with the President, in Obama Says Biden Pushed Him Into Gay-Marriage Speech. Biden Says “Sorry”
“I hope Bristol’s baby is gay.”
Tom says what we’re all thinking, in Teen Mom Bristol Palin: Obama Shouldn’t Have Let Daughters Educate Him On Marriage
Mikel D McGrew
Oh, really. No one pushes Mr. Obama into anything. He does what he wants and says what he wants. Mr. Biden had naught to do with this. Can we not simply accept that Mr. Obama has changed his thinking on this issue?
desdemona
I hope for the childs sake, that Bristols baby is not gay. She on the other hand, does need a healthy dose of reality- but that poor baby will suffer enough being brought up by such a hypocritical bigot like Bristol and her crazy mother.
I don’t care about the calculation of Obamas stance and announcement- he said he supports gay marriage people! STOP TRYING TO TURN IT INTO SOMETHING BAD. We are lucky to have him in the White House.
Randall Reynolds
Obama is a hero, no matter what anyone says!
Hyhybt
Birthday cake is the only food you can spit all over and everybody still wants some.
Andrew
Mikel, Obama has not “evolved” at all and he’s not for LGBT rights or same gender marriage either and never has been.
me
Obama “Personally” Believes that Same-sex Couples Should Be Able to Marry — but, Only If the Mob Approves.
Well, technically, Obama’s stance is pretty much like that of the current Republican Gov. of New Jersey. Obama believes that (unlike his parents’ interracial marriage) that “the states should decide” if millions of GLBT Americans can past the popularity contest enough to secure their equal rights. That should really please those people pushing to amend their state constitutions to exclude us. It should also negate the arguments on our side for overturning Prop 8 in California. A stupid, really stupid thing for Obama to needlessly add to his “declaration” of half-assed support.
Fortunately, President Eisenhower (in the 1950s) and President Johnson (mid 1960s) weren’t like President Obama or we’d probably still have segregated schools and lunch-counters in the South. You don’t leave civil rights up to the mob to decide.
Obama just can’t open his mouth without some kind of stupid dropping out of it. He should have just left it at “I support marriage equality” without adding…well, if the mob decides it is OK with them.
He better clarify soon. Already, people are starting to see his “great endorsement” as less than genuine. He substituted “god’s in the mix” with …the “mob should be in the mix”.
How loathsome.
doug105
@Andrew: I’am white and some how let my membership in goproud run out what’s the p/w again hang — ?
vklortho
“I’ve done a COMPLETE 360 on Obama in the past 24 hours. I had written him off and was done with politics this time last night. Now, I have taken ownership with this guy as MY President. He is my Abraham Lincoln.”
Does he know that if you do a complete 360 that you’ll end up facing the exact same direction in which you started?
EdWoody
@vklortho: You beat me to it. I was about to bitch about another American idiot who doesn’t remember basic primary school geometry.
Hyhybt
@EdWoody: There is another possibility: that he hadn’t written him off *until* that time. In which case it would be 360º.
No-Obot
Michael W. wrote: “…the amendment still would’ve passed and the media would then label gay marriage a political loser, an albatross hung around the president’s neck. Him not coming out until after the amendment passed was a calculated decision and one in which I’m in agreement.”
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That’s a pretty weak argument. Now, I guess Obama should take back what he said about not being for that repeal effort in Washington State, eh? Fortune favors the bold. Independent voters especially despise spineless leaders who wont take a stand. That is why fascist Republicans win election — even when pushing issues that the majority does not support, like anti-abortion legislation and tax breaks for the wealthiest 2%. People expect their leaders to lead the herd, not just follow the herd.