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Log Cabin Republicans: Obama manipulating LGBT families for political gain
The Log Cabin Republicans, a group dedicated to representing LGBT Republicans, on Wednesday derided President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same sex marriage. “That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said…
Obama declares himself ‘evolved’ on marriage equality
In an interview with ABC News today, following a lot of back-and-forth about the nature of his position on marriage equality, President Obama announced that he had finally come to the conclusion that civil unions are not enough to guarantee that “gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and…
Obama endorses same sex marriage
In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, President Barack Obama declared that “same sex couples should be able to get married.” The president told ABC’s Robin Roberts that his views on the issue of marriage equality had been “going through an evolution.” “I’ve always been adamant that gay and…
Profiles in courage: Obama’s ‘evolving’ position on marriage equality
Ever since Vice President Joe Biden let the proverbial cat out of the proverbial bag and admitted he thinks Americans should have equal rights regardless of the person they wish to marry, the White House has been batting clean-up: on the one hand, trying to preserve that mythical voter bloc…
‘Forward’ — that frightening word
In the past, President Obama was criticized by Standard Political Pundits for supposedly failing to articulate his thinking on Health Reform, and other items on his agenda. They said he was overly complex; he was too remote; he didn’t offer cunning soundbites. Possibly this was the impetus for his committee’s…
Romney mocks Obama’s ‘Julia’ pitch to female voters
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Tuesday chided President Barack Obama for using a cartoon character named “Julia” to explain how his policies benefit women and middle-class voters. “Liberals envision government guiding and providing every need of every citizen,” Romney said, reading from a teleprompter in Lansing, Michigan. “Government…
Economic trends strengthen Obama’s hand
WASHINGTON — There is no doubt Barack Obama is in a tough spot. With time slipping away before November’s elections, the economy seems to keep dealing him a sub-par hand. Unemployment, at 8.1 percent, is still high enough to induce mountain sickness, and the descent has been painfully slow. The…
Chuck Todd: ‘Gay money has replaced Wall Street money’ for Obama
NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama would announce his support for marriage equality before the November election because LGBT donors had become more important to his campaign than Wall Street donors. The MSNBC host said he believes that it’s no coincidence that…
Obama knocks Romney: Corporations are not people
President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday by rebuking his presumptive Republican opponent’s approach to taxes and the economy. “We’ve come too far to abandon the change we have fought for these past few years” Obama told a crowd of 14,000 supporters. “We have to…
Obama tells Americans not to take chance on Romney
President Barack Obama said Saturday the United States had suffered too much pain to turn the economy over to Republican Mitt Romney, as he fired up his first official reelection rally. “We are not turning back the clock, we are moving forward,” Obama said, seeking to revive the political magic that swept…
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