{"id":27839,"date":"2012-05-10T05:06:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T10:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27839"},"modified":"2012-05-10T05:06:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T10:06:37","slug":"never-thought-id-say-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27839","title":{"rendered":"Never Thought I’d Say It…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…but\u00a0Obama got one right. \u00a0He may not had intended to get it right – from the standpoint of a libertarian-conservative “tenther” – I’d rather doubt it, given his other behavior.<\/p>\n

You could say he got it right for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n

Stil, if even the loathsome Gawker <\/em>gets it<\/a>, then I think there’s some there, there.<\/p>\n

Of course, the announcement itself infuriated the far left just as much as the far right:<\/p>\n

He now believes that gay couples should be able to marry. He doesn’t believe they have a right to do so. This is like saying that black children and white children ought to attend the same schools, but if the people of Alabama reject that notion\u2014what are you gonna do?<\/p>\n

The key language in the ABC News write-up is this:<\/p>\n

The president stressed that this is a personal position, and that he still supports the concept of states deciding the issue on their own.<\/p>\n

On this afternoon’s special broadcast, Jake Tapper echoed that point: “The president said he thought this was a state-by-state issue.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whoah!<\/p>\n

Now, this is not a profile in federalistic courage; it’s Obama hiding behind the Tenth Amendment to try to avoid infuriating blacks and gay-hating union members. \u00a0Obama would use the Tenth Amendment as a placemat if he could get Obamacare, “tax the rich” and complete radical underhaul of the banking system jammed down.<\/p>\n

The announcement, in other words, was an attempt to do the same basic thing he did with the Zimmerman\/Martin flap: get his part of his base energized ( white liberals in this case) without losing the other half.<\/p>\n

It may not be working yet.Well, before Roe v. Wade, abortion was a state-by-state issue, too. So was slavery.<\/p>\n

We should never, as a nation, have embraced either.<\/p>\n

At any rate – it may not be working<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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