This will not play well at the Church of What's Happening Now.
Posted on 05/10/2012 5:43:37 PM PDT by Signalman
1. I was listening to the Hugh Hewitt show a few hours ago and a guy called in, a medical employee at a hospital. He said that he happened to be checking out two Black patients in different rooms who had no connection to each other. Both of them had family members visiting them. In both situations, the subject of Obama approving gay marriage came up and in both cases, the family members were irate and said they were going to "stay home" on election day. Sure, it's anecdotal but it could be significant. Blacks have a higher rate of opposition to gay marriage than any other ethnic group.
2. A recent poll in the state of Ohio showed that a whopping 62 percent of voters OPPOSED gay marriage. In a closely fought state swing state like Ohio, which Obama badly needs, this could make quite a difference in the outcome.
I think Obama made, politically, a huge mistake.
Both Soetoro and Mittens are Liberals. Won’t hurt Barry at all.
How many gay marriage laws have been passed by voters?
Zero.
Obama blew this one big time.
Well said; bump.
From the point of view of his campaign calendar, the homosexual marriage move creates progressive buzz from now to Memorial Day. Then from June 1 to June 30, he needs buzz from another non-economic issue — say education. Then after June 30, the Supreme Court decision will resurrect the Obamacare issue. That will reboot Obama’s 2008 campaign and give Romney a big headache.
It pays to look at the entire game plan, not just individual set pieces.
Has it occurred to anyone that he was so brazen about it because they plan on stealing the election anyway?
The gay marriage meme is a distraction from the pathetic economy. Poor “Tom” can’t afford to marry “Bob”!
He’s not pushing the envelope.
He’s distracting everyone from what a communist he is.
Everything is planned...There are no accidents in politics...accidents and disclosures are planned!
Of course the ‘Biden gaffe’ was planned. He HAD to come out for gay marriage, even tho he really didn’t want to, because Biden MADE him do it (always looks for someone else to blame). Now he wants to lie low and not make it an issue. He gets to be ‘pro gay marriage’ to those who know he meant it, and ‘against gay marriage’ to those who consider him a victim of Biden’s (proven) incompetence and that, perhaps, he didn’t really mean it but was forced to say it.
Crap. obummer is for fag fornication and calling it "gay marriage" and mittens is against it.
If you can't see any difference on this issue, your romney hatred is blinding you.
I knew obama was a fag, but blowing all of Florida?
Wow, that's a job for monica.
Perhaps he has help from the dark side.
Clearly Obama thinks that blacks will back him no matter what.
In fact, one of the biggest lines of bullsh*t lately has been that he’s been avoiding coming “out of the closet” on this because he’s feared the effect on Independents.
Think what one likes about gay “marriage” or the mushy middle, those are not the people whose reaction Obama feared. It was black religious voters, and to a lesser extent Hispanics.
Well, he’s done a calculation, eyes on the financial line it seems, and he’s said “they’ll stick with me anyway”.
Black Americans, that’s what Obama thinks. He thinks he can do nothing to improve your lot, put a stick in your eye to please white hollywood and other rich, liberal, white people, and you’ll still show up to vote for him in droves.
Oh, yeah, and hey, black people, Barack Obama is only 1/2 black....and.....he ate a dog!
WRONG. Obama won...because we’re not talking about the economy.
Good points.
Get a grip. It's May.
IMO, it's actually better to not get people burned out with "economy" talk. There will be plenty of that in a few months.
And anyway, people are experiencing and despairing the crappy Ubama economy on their own, without having to be told, unlike when the economy is thriving under a Republican president and the Democrats and their newsrooms relentlessly harp about how bad the economy is until some people actually believe the economy must indeed be bad - - for other people they don't know.
“Crap. obummer is for fag fornication and calling it “gay marriage” and mittens is against it.”
Romney was governor of a state that passed gay marriage.
Romney, just yesterday, stated that he was in favor of gay’s adopting children.
How can gays adopt children if they are not in some sort of legally recognized relationship?
Now, please tell me the difference between Obama’s and Romney’s stance on gay marriage.
That works for me.
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