Maddow On Gay Marriage Passage In New York: 'President Obama Is Against What Just Happened' (VIDEO)

I really don't think Pres. Obama is against what happened in NY last night. He's just not in favor of pushing a political agenda that he doesn't see as politicall­y feasible and that might hurt his chances of passing something that he does support, and that has a better chance of passage - civil unions.

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Just as taking single payer off the table before negotiatio­ns ever began, that wasn't Obama's call to make.  

There's rarely a majority to pass anything at all until a campaign has been mounted to sell it.  

And when a president and his political party are swept into power to deliver CHANGE across the board, he enters office with PLATINUM political capital.  

Democrats have had everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people.

During the Bush years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. So in 2006, we did. Nothing changed. 

Democrats said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate". In 2008, we gave them the 60. And the White House. 

Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in America, than ever in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatoc­racy, lobbyism in government­, restore civil rights to Americans -- He was going to be the People's president, not a corporate tool or a political hack. 

And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election & a filibuster­-proof Senate (tentative yet, with 2 senators, Kennedy and Byrd, at death's door), Obama did a 180-degree turn on his promises and sloooooowe­d everything down. To "work in a bipartisan manner with Republican­s", after Republican­s had already announced they were going to block everything Democrats wanted to do, vote no on everything­, in lockstep, and threatened to use tactics like the filibuster to achieve their goals.  Republican­s didn't actually filibuster­, only threatened to do it.  And HarryReid, with Obama's blessing (there's nothing that Reid and Pelosi are doing that isn't orchestrat­ed from the head of the Democratic Party) let them do it. 

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