…says Alan Caruba.
If he’s right it adds some ammunition to my view of Obama’s coming landslide loss in Nov.
For the record I’m against gay marriage. I’ve nothing against gays having a Civil Union, having the same rights under the law as married couples do, heck I don’t even mind if one of them nags the other to death, just don’t call it marriage and go through a traditional wedding. It’s not nit picking, one of the tactics of the left over the last hundred years is redefining words. Words have meanings, to change meanings for political purposes is to weaken the bonds that keep us civilised. I guess we all know our Orwell to know what I’m getting at.
I bet Joe Biden is in the dog house about now, no doubt afraid to close his eyes in case Freddie Barack Krueger is roaming around.
Good little roundup from Ed Driscoll filling in for Glenn Reynolds.
Victor Davis Hanson on Presidential Narcissism.
For the record, I am opposed to gay marriage too. Civil unions, yes.
Excellent comment and links at Joshuapundit.
I think everyone who really cares strongly about this issue has been locked in for ages. If Mitt has a brain he won’t touch this, and will talk about nothing but the horrible economy and the terrifying debt caused by out-of-control gov’t spending. There are six months until the election. Letting the MSM suck him into spending who-knows-how-long on this issue while they pulverize him as a bigot and try to scare off “independent” voters is a sucker’s game.
An interesting move on Obama’s part.
This is way down on the list of things that most people care about, but high on the list that politically active people care about. Obama is still, in many ways, the state pol from a safe district. I think he did this to help fill his campaign coffers. It’s hard to see how this will help him in the so-called “battleground states”.
“he did this to help fill his campaign coffers.”
Of course this is all about money. Purely coincidentally, he’s expected to raise $16M tonight in a $40K/plate dinner at George Clooney’s house. Real man of the people, that Barry is.
I just saw this story at the WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html?hpid=z2
Given the way that the anti-prop-8 forces went after the mormons in CA, I am certain now that Obama made his announcement as a means of getting more dough out of the Hollywood types.
Obama was a civil rights lawyer and as a law instructor he taught the 14th amendment. It is ridiculous to believe that he does not think that the 14th is applicable in this case — civil rights law is very much the story of changing the people protected by the 14th from freed slaves and their defendents to virtually everyone (accept white college applicants).
That article is despicable. Absolutely vile.
Clearly the Washington Post has already spent more time and effort digging up dirt on Romney than they ever did on Barry.
May everyone who works at that wretched hive of scum and villainy lose their jobs as soon as possible.
This reminds me of the foolishness of the “expose” that George Allen had a confederate bumper sticker in the 1960′s. For God’s sake, one of the most popular shows on television in the late 70′s featured a car named “The General Lee”, complete with a giant confederate flag painted on its roof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Lee
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/15-genuinely-interesting-things-about-rob-portman
1. He learned Spanish from Mexican cowboys while working on a border ranch. He worked on three cattle ranches in high school and college.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/15-genuinely-interesting-things-about-rob-portman
The WaPo is now sending a team of reporters to investigate whether any of these “Mexican cowboys”, their friends and family, or anyone who has ever played a Mexican on television or the movies has ever engaged in “bullying”.
This is getting ridiculous.
This appears in an anti-Romney story by ABC:
White, in an interview with ABC News, said that he is “still debating” whether he will help the campaign, remarking, “It’s been a long time since we’ve been pals.” While the Post reports White as having “long been bothered” by the haircutting incident,” he told ABC News he was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/romney-friend-stu-white-says-campaign-wants-him-to-counter-prank-accusations/
The ABC story also includes unsourced, vague allegations about Romney not being a nice guy when he was an adolescent. This is journalistic malpractice.
“This is journalistic malpractice.”
Naw. Just vetting.
I’m sure you would agree that a hit piece is not vetting, Bob.
There’s little different these days, Terry. Fox News “vets” President Obama on a regular basis. Even on this even-keeled blog, I’ve encountered “vetting” being used to link to tabloid-style hits.
Scott Brown is encouraging further vetting of Elizabeth Warren’s faux Native-American ancestry. His “vetters” best be careful with their facts. The chief of the Cherokee Nation is 1/32 Cherokee, same as Warren.
http://www.cherokee.org/OurGovernment/Executive/PrincipalChiefsOffice/24811/Information.aspx
Honestly, all marriage is essentially civil unions at the government level. Committment, stability, and the other things that go with it are conservative values, and for me, at least, make a solid case for gay civil unions.
Obama, I think, is trying to both draw contributions and distract us from the dreadful economy. Romney should ignoe the distractions and pound on spending, the deficit, and the economy.
I agree. He should not only tell us how he’ll pull us out of the deep recession, but also how he started the process by saving the auto industry.
“I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back. My own view is that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what the president did. He finally took them through bankruptcy.”
We should all be grateful to Mitt.