I\u2019m not such a political neophyte as to suggest that this is unique in politics, but the bold faced, brazen machinations and ham handed plotting which have characterized this \u201cevolution\u201d in the President\u2019s position on the subject at hand are rather breathtaking. And I\u2019m not saying that people don\u2019t actually \u201cevolve\u201d in their positions, beliefs or ideology. I know that my own attitudes and beliefs in my twenties were a far cry \u2013 in some instances at least \u2013 from where I stand in my fifties. Very few of us spring out of the halls of high school fully formed with all of the opinions we\u2019ll hold until the grave.<\/p>\n
But these evolutions generally take place over a long period of time, as exposure to new people and different ideas are examined and experimented with. Some are kept, others are rejected. Barack Obama, on the other hand, has gone in the course of less than a decade from full throated support of gay marriage to full opposition on religious grounds, back to full support. Are we really supposed to be buying this?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ask Tina Brown.<\/p>\n
I’m sure she thinks so.<\/p>\n
I didn’t think Andrew Sullivan could do more to undercut the intellectual legitimacy of the left than his “Trigger” obsession – his demented notion that Trig Palin was Sarah’s baby.<\/p>\n
Happy to say I was wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barack Obama is “The First Gay President”. On the one hand, it’s only Andrew Sullivan. \u00a0I am only dimly aware that Sullivan was still blogging. On the other hand? \u00a0Well, Jazz Shaw puts it well: I\u2019m not such a political neophyte as to suggest that this is unique in politics, but the bold faced, brazen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27942,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27921\/revisions\/27942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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