Thursday, March 15, 2007

Obama's Gay Problem?

In the aftermath of General Pace's recent offensive comments, the leading Democratic Presidential candidates aren't exactly leaping to don any rainbow shawls. First Hillary flubbed it. Now this, from Newsday's Glenn Thrush, guest posting on the Chicago Tribune's political blog:

Newsday caught Obama as he was leaving the firefighters convention and asked him three times if he thought homosexuality is immoral.
Answer 1: "I think traditionally the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman has restricted his public comments to military matters. That's probably a good tradition to follow."
Answer 2: "I think the question here is whether somebody is willing to sacrifice for their country, should they be able to if they're doing all the things that should be done."
Answer 3: Signed autograph, posed for snapshot, jumped athletically into town car.

Update: Obama and Clinton have both released statements saying that of course what they meant to say is that homosexuality is not immoral.

3/15/2007 10:21:35 AM by David S. Bernstein | Comments [1] |

Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:18:10 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

The dem field is deceptively weak. They're all obfuscators a la John Kerry. Obama can pretend all he wants to be this big populist, but he's still an obfuscator who's great friend in the Senate was Joe Lieberman. Sadly, he's looking like the best option so far.

All of these candidates are the same. Edwards has lots of obfuscating statements on gay rights a swell; I think his comment on Pace was just as obfuscating and left just that little wiggle room.

Why do they keep trying to appeal to people who aren't going to vote for them anyway? The Dem voters who aren't in favor of gay rights (and that's not a lot of them) don't really care about it - it's not going to determine the election.

We need the New Al Gore to run, as far as I'm concerned. None of the Big Three represent me - or progressivism.

Luckily, the Republican field is even weaker...

Ryan

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