
- Now maybe career Democrats will “evolve” on issues such as war, empire, torture, civil liberties and habeas corpus.
- Robert Scheer | Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion
- Obama’s gay marriage views mean little for policy
- It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sick at Heart
Scott Tucker, Truthdig
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President Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. White House/Pete Souza
Truthdig Editor’s note: The president’s comment Wednesday (May 9) that he now supports marriage rights for same-sex couples after years of meditation and evolution has been hailed as a historic moment in American politics. Not everyone is so impressed. Below, Truthdig senior writer Scott Tucker reacts to the news.
President Obama was finally politically cornered, including by the unscripted remarks of Vice President Biden. Anyone who attributes courage to Obama in making this announcement is in a bemused state of mind. Obama’s calculation was electoral through and through. And the White House was definitely getting the news that major gay donors would not be signing checks until he “evolved” already. Also, millions of ordinary gay voters were finding it harder to suppress mounting moral revulsion at being played like extras in every election.
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Hope and Hesitation in Obama’s Sudden Conversion, Robert Scheer, Truthdig
Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific. But his failure of courage on the gay marriage issue, in the end, undermined the point he hoped to make Wednesday. As with his prior rhetorical flashes of principle in denouncing torture, commiserating with the victims of Wall Street fraud and resolving to end unjustifiable wars, he quickly waffled and the result was a continuation of that which is fundamentally wrong.
Obama’s gay marriage views mean little for policy, Liz Goodwin, The Lookout
- It's about ‘moral leadership,’ advocate says
- Obama and Gay Marriage: Thanks for Nothing
It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sick at Heart, William Rivers Pitt, Truthout
- If your upbringing or pastor or background or whatever leads you to hate total strangers because of who they love, where they live, what they look like, how they worship or if they worship, if you have devoted yourself to an 'Us' or 'Them' mentality and refuse to abandon such poison, if you have no ears to hear, but instead choose to pursue a course of vitriol and division, here is a truth: we will break you across our knee like so much kindling. We are large, we contain multitudes, and yours is a course of dissolution and despair.
- Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses