rocketpig said:
HappySqurriel said:
Honestly, at this point in time this seems like a very odd choice ...
Being that this will (likely) resolve nothing before the next election, gay marriage is not particularly popular in most states, gay marriage has fallen off of the political radar because all people care about is the economy, and there are siginficant risks of another economic downturn before the next election a move like this could actually make it harder to make gay marriage legal in the united states.
Basically, would you want to go into an election as a sitting president with a multi-trillion dollar deficit, $150 oil, unemployment at (roughly) 10%, house prices that are a fraction of where they were when you were first elected and be running on an issue that has been voted against in even the most liberal of states?
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Have you been watching what the GOP has been doing lately? They've gone completely off the deep end with attacks against Planned Parenthood, redefining "forcible rape" (I mean, seriously), and all sorts of other nonsense completley unrelated to jobs or the economy.
Obama needs to mobilize his base and this is a good way to do it.
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Well technically all that stuff was done under the banner "budget relief austerity" to get the deficit down.
Doesn't make it any less horrible, but it does make it tangentally involved to the economy.
Like if you have a wife who hates gaming and she tries to make ou sell your systems when money times are bad even though you'll get almost nothing from gamestop.
