Excelsior
The New York State Senate has re-affirmed that marriage is only ever the union of one man and one woman. Yet Obama easily carried New York, just as he did Maine, where the electorate recently made the same re-affirmation, even though it returns the two Republican Senators most likely to vote for the Healthcare Bill. “Yet”? “Even though”? So we are expected to believe. But Obama won California and Florida on the same day as those states endorsed traditional marriage. And traditional marriage is in fact Obama’s own view.
He still has some way to go on foreign policy realism, although he is better than either his internal or his external rivals. But on the nature of marriage, on paleocon trade policies, on support for the Stupak Amendment and the Pregnant Women Support Act, and even on illegal immigration and the status of English (although he needs to stop dropping hints and start taking action), Obama is both right in principle, and in tune with public opinion. Clinton and Bush dynastic retainers alike need to face up to the fact of their defeat.
Didn’t Obama tell the Canadians his “paleocon trade policies” was just campaign rhetoric?
“Dropping hints?”
Geez-this guy is as deluded as was Garry Wills on the Left. (See just pubished, The Afghanistan Betrayal.)
Aside from Blacks, Obama typically attracted the most socially liberal voters in the Democratic primaries. In Maine, gay marriage lost by 5 points…in Tennessee a few years ago it lost by well over 60 points … TN not only voted for McCain but had virtually no swing from 2004. Both of ME’s senators are also pro-choice, largely homophilic, but maybe that is on coincidence either
And I remind you, Kucinich, Nader, the Green Party, and likely Bernie Sanders (the actual social democrats) do not support this inflationary health insurance industry bailout bill and they do not support the Afghan escalation. Perhaps you should take notice.
Didn’t Obama just recently say that our trade deficit with South Korea was nothing to worry about? Doesn’t sound like much of an economic patriot to me. And the only hints being dropped about illegal immigration are pointing to an amnesty and no effort to secure the border.