Obama endorses gay marriage

[Dodece]

This was actually a brilliant political move on the part of the President. That doesn't make what he said wrong by the way. The President is always a politician, and politics is a tool that a President uses to promote their agenda. To make it simple a good President is also a good politician. A President needs to be a good Politician to accomplish things of any importance. What some of you don't understand is that up until now the President didn't have majority support on this issue.

That isn't to say he hasn't been working to further the gay agenda however. He has spent most of his term slowly undermining the bigotry. Such as signing legislation that allowed gays to openly serve in the military. All he did with this comment was to do what he has done all along. Which is to undermine the position of his rivals just a bit more.

Anyway this will play out well with Independents where the majority support gay marriage. Which just reflects the nation as a whole, and Independents are the swing votes that usually determine national elections. They will not win or lose a state that swings overwhelmingly on one side or the other, but in states where it is a near even split that is where Independents can decide the matter.

Oh if by chance your thinking this isn't huge for the Gay community your very wrong. It isn't just symbolic it really does put more pressure on the Republicans as they try to appeal to Independents while retaining their very own moderates. The trend really in inexorable with each passing year more Americans support the right to marriage for Gays. This really puts them in a lose lose situation. Where the extremists demand complete opposition, but at the same time this will cost the party some members. Social justice is one of those things that does trump what the economy is doing.

Speaking to impressions of America presented in this thread. The United States is a fairly large conglomerate as it were. Europe as a whole would be a better comparison as compared to any single Nation in Europe. When you think of it that way then if Nations in Europe can be far apart on different things. Then what chance do Kentucky, and California have at being close on everything. The answer is not much chance at all. So if your puzzled as to why the United States can be both Liberal and Conservative. Then shouldn't you also be confused by how vastly different economic policies were from say Greece to Germany. The United States is no more monolithic then Europe.