(May 8, 2012 at 3:16 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Seriously, he's going to couch his words in such a way so as to gain as many / lose as few votes as possible while not completely alienating his base.
So, why did he only support civil unions in 2008? If he wanted to get the gay votes, why not just say he support same-sex marriage then? We know that Joe Biden doesn't operate from much of a script, so I just think Obama was kind of forced to take a stand on the issue after Biden, and since Biden obviously came out in favor of equality, Obama wants to come off as being in agreement with his vice president and vice versa. It may have been a completely calculated political move on Obama's part, but I'm just saying that may be one reason for the switch.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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