“Bestowing this honor on Warren was a conscious — and glib — decision by Obama to spend political capital.”
The homosexuals have no place to go. So Obama can take them for granted. He’s not spending political capital. He’s accumulating it in the most cynical and calculating way possible. It would take a NYT reporter not to see that.
If we are lucky, it signals that Obama is ready to treat the far left of his party the way W treated conservatives. More likely, it is empty symbolism designed to give him political room with moderate Americans to implement a truly horrendous socialist agenda.
“The homosexuals have no place to go. “
Not sure I agree with this. I think it has more to do with the number of homosexuals more than anything else.
Over a quarter of homosexuals voted for McCain in 2008. About a quarter voted for W’s reelection. Many homosexuals are well off financially, so I guess this kind of makes sense. It’ll be interesting to see if Obama’s job here sends anymore of them to the right.
Overall, there are so few homosexuals that they simply don’t have the political clout that racial groups do. I think that’s why Obama isn’t too concerned with losing them. Even if half of them went over to the GOP, his support wouldn’t change by more than a few percentage points. Evangelicals represent a much larger voting bloc, so he’s naturally more concerned with trying to get some of them to support him. It won’t work, but I’m sure that’s what he’s thinking.