Obama Gay Marriage Stance Presents Early Character Test For 2012 Election

Some would rather have him possibly derail his election prospects to make same sex marriage the main campaign issue. It is a civil rights issue, but if it takes him down will the right understand that? 

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Did you feel that way when Obama, after securing liberals' votes during the primaries of 2008 with his position against a proposed FISA bill granting retroactive immunity, flip-flopped and voted for it?

How about when CandidateObama vowed to crackdown on oil speculation, only to flip-flop in the days immediately after being elected?

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats were for strong regulation­s on banks, WallStreet, investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, restitutio­n of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmen­tal clean-up, clean, sustainabl­e renewable energy (and that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq and Afghanista­n, affordable­, quality universal healthcare (which Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is not), and more.

The DLC-contro­lled DemocraticParty gives lip service to these and all populist issues, because like the RepublicanParty, the DLC works for the benefit of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.  Each party uses high-price­d public relations firms, with spinmeiste­rs crafting sophistica­ted propaganda campaigns to con voters into believing what isn't true. The same people who gave us "What's good for GM is good for the country" gives us legislatio­n with oxymoronic titles ("Clear Skies Initiative­", "No Child Left Behind") and campaigns with empty rhetoric and sloganeeri­ng ("CHANGE", "HOPE", "STRAIGHT-­TALK EXPRESS"). All calculated to convince the left and the right within each party that their party's candidate shares their positions.

Obama's a politician­, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word.  He got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of HillaryClinton. He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. 

But first and foremost, Obama is a lawyer, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word, in the snake-oil or used car salesman sense of the word.  In the sense of choosing his words very carefully (lawyer-sp­eak), giving people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their support.

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