DUMBASSES!
{Posted in America, Barack Obama, Homophobia, Joe Biden, News/Current Events, Politics, Rants on May 6th, 2012 by Scott }So Vice President Joe Biden just endorsed gay marriage on Dancin’ Dave Gregory’s show this morning:
Biden: The good news is that, as more and more Americans come to understand what this is all about is a simple proposition: who do you love? Who do you love? And will you be loyal to the person you love? And that’s what people are finding out what all marriages at their root are about, whether they are marriages of lesbians, or gay men or heterosexuals.
Gregory: That’s what you believe?
Biden: That’s what I believe.
Gregory: And you’re comfortable with same-sex marriage now?
Biden: Look. I am Vice President of the United States. The President sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties, and quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction beyond that.
And within minutes the dumbass White House spin machine was trying to walk back Biden’s remarks, but doing so with all the schizophrenic, cowardly logic and the use of weasel-words that they’ve always brought to the discussion of gay marriage.
And the reason it’s a dumbass move is because all the walking back does is piss off the gays and the Liberals and doesn’t win a single conservative over to Obama’s side because they all think he already supports gay marriage.
There is absolutely no upside to walking back the Veep’s statement.
Look, here’s the one single thing every gay needs to know about Barack Obama — he DOES NOT have “evolving” views about gay marriage as he’s claimed before.
What Obama has is a case of the icks because he finds gay marriage icky and would just as soon the whole thing — and us — go away.
And even though polls now show that more than half of Americans support equal rights for gays and lesbians {including an ever growing number of republicans} Mr. Hope and Change is not gonna hop on the equal rights bandwagon until the percentage of Americans who support our right to marry is closer to 70, if not higher.
And he’ll never, ever, ever do it in an election year, regardless of the number of Americans who support equal rights.
This from a guy who wouldn’t even be alive today were it not for the equal rights protections afforded to his white mother and black father who were allowed to marry thanks to the federal repeal of anti-miscegenation laws in this country.
His entire fucking existence owes itself to a change in the laws of the land that granted equal rights protections to his parents that he’s only just now having “evolving” views on when they concern others.
Standing up and doing the right thing in spite of your personal feelings or prejudices, or in the face of vocal opposition from others, is the hallmark of a true leader.
Refusing to do so out of political calculation is the hallmark of a fucking coward.
And refusing to do so when there is absolutely no downside to doing it is the hallmark of a dumbass.
I’m tellin’ ya — these Obama people are not half as fucking smart as they all like to think they are.
