The latest flip-flops from Obama after he flipped over FISA, guns, and public financing, is his new stance on gay marriage. He once supported the rights of the states to decide who can marry and who can’t….not anymore. Commence flipping:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who previously said the issue of gay marriage should be left up to each state, has announced his opposition to a California ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriages.
In a letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club read Sunday at the group’s annual Pride Breakfast in San Francisco, the Illinois senator said he supports extending “fully equal rights and benefits to same-sex couples under both state and federal law.”
“And that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states,” Obama wrote.
Obama had previously said he opposes same-sex marriage but that each state should make its own decision.
It doesn’t stop there. Commence flopping:
Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul “slashed the rolls by 80 percent.” Obama leaves out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction.
“I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare,” Obama said on the floor of the Illinois state Senate on May 31, 1997. “Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems.”
Obama’s transformation from opponent to champion of welfare reform is the latest in a series of moves to the center. Since capturing the Democratic nomination, Obama has altered his stances on Social Security taxes, meeting with rogue leaders without preconditions, and the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.’s, sweeping gun ban.
Just more evidence that the man stands for everything, and nothing at the same time. Whatever is going to play well to the electorate at the time will suffice. Shifting your position to convince center right, center left voters to vote for him is the kind of thing Obama was NOT trying to represent. That of the same old dishonest politician. Instead of hope and change he is representing the same old grab for power, anyway, anyhow that we have grown accustomed to.
Ch-ch-change!
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His current position on California’s gay marriage initiative confuses me. Does this mean he is for gay marriage? If he is for the state’s deciding isn’t this what the state is doing. If he decides to be for gay marriage just in time for the general election that might be the dumbest political move in the history of political moves.
As for welfare reform, according to Powerline, he is just simply misrepresenting his vote in that commercial.
I am from Chicago and I can tell you that it is a cesspool of hard ball politics and corruption. That goes for the county of Cook, where Chicago is at, and for Springfield our state governments. In all three, Obama became a very standard political insider. He supported Todd Stroger over his friend and political ally Forrest Claypool for Cook County Board President even though Stroger was only on the ticket because his father, John, was on his death bed. His father John was a notoriously corrupt politician. Claypool was running on a platform of reform and ending the corruption (sound familiar) and yet Obama supported the candidate of the machine. That is the real Barack Obama. Here is how I wrote about it…
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2008/04/ayers-rezko-and-obama-countering.html
“Ch-ch-change!” :is a winning plan according to the conclusions from a recent USA Today/Gallup poll:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108490/Americans-Worry-McCain-Would-Too-Similar-Bush.aspx
Both candidates are flipping and flopping. It’s absurd for you not to acknowledge McCain is doing the same thing: Off-shore drilling, social security, lobby reform, foreign negotiations, immigration, taxes…
It’s always the same strategy, they run to their base in the primaries and then to the center in the general; not to acknowledge this is to remove yourself from objectivity.
McCain voted against the federal ban of same sex marriage but supports the idea of a state ban. Obama voted the same way and opposes the California intiative. Opposing the initiative doesn’t mean you oppose the states right to make the decision.
No, but this
does.
Though I’m sure he’ll be quick to change his opinion again, when the necessity to do so arrises again. Dude’s head spins more than Linda Blair
I pretty sure all of this is what he’s always said. It’s what I always have heard him say.
I’m with you on this, Doug. Altho it may be said that JSM campaigned on left of center, and is now running to right of center in order to regain those of us who view him as little more than RINO.
On the “flip” side, BHO campaigned to the extreme left, and is now making a dash to left of center.
Reassessing policies as events demand isn’t a bad thing on the whole. But the difference between the two’s flip/flops is that only BHO built an entire platform on his strong principles and convictions, vowing they were what made him unique.
Yet despite denials of being a Washington-as-usual pol, he has aptly demonstrated he is nothing more than just that. Just like all the rest, his political expediency trumps his convictions. Which doesn’t speak well of his dedication to “convictions”.
The mega-buck homosexuals who financed his campaign are going to make damned sure he is against the Cal. initiative. Why do you think one of his first official acts if elected will be the issuing of Executive orders: 1. legalizing homosexual marriage, and 2. doing away with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the military. Count on it. But don’t expect any media types to ask him the questions.
All Obama stances are subject to termination, reversal, clarification, spin, flip flops, CHANGE, obfuscation, demarcation, delineation, and time-outs at any moment. Even while in the act of being spoken or written, whether by himself or surrogates (paid, unpaid, authorized or unauthorized.)
So it is written, so let it be done.
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