I don't agree with Obama on that issue and I think he should take a more aggressive stance on it. From a political standpoint, however, it is a smart move. It is still a divisive issue, although in a few decades opposition to gay marriage will be significantly lower as younger generations tend to not care about the issue anywhere near as much as older people.
Take an aggressive stance on too many issues and you will have what I call the "Ron Paul effect" happen to you. Everyone will talk about how great you are, but no one will vote for you. Obama is a politician who has to make sacrifices sometimes. Plain and simple.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
