Barack Obama endorses gay marriage
Bold. Steadfast. Historic. A little predictable maybe - and quite a bit late. Barack Obama's announcement that he supports gay marriage after nearly four years of utter silence on the matter would carry a little more weight if it hadn't been forcibly induced by a Joe Biden gaffe the day before. I say gaffe, but what actually happened was that he told the truth about his own feelings which caused vicious questioning of whether the President himself also felt that people should be given the rights and means to attain joy. Apparently this is an issue in America, as opposed to here in the UK where it's just assumed through his words and actions that our Prime Minister doesn't want personal happiness for anyone.
More bafflingly, the PR folks decided that the best course of action was to let poor White House Press Secretary Jay Carney fend off the question for a day without giving him an answer to work with. Presumably they did this just to see if they could get away with it, eventually coming to the last ditch, Jesus-holy-hell-I-can't-believe-we're-doing-this solution of taking a stand on one side of the colourfully-decorated fence. The most tragic part of this outcome was that the facts really were the very last thing that they tried - Obama's staff considered such an admission of humanistic apathy so suicidal with important voters in the "face inside own anus" demographic that they were willing to appear like bumbling fools who were scared of their own thoughts.
That media-savvy folks would choose this outcome is itself a damning critique of where America currently sits politically (although I'm sure if the issue had not been mentioned whatsoever it would have pleased them more). I'm sorry (I'm not actually sorry), but if you're one of these people railing so vehemently against allowing someone else a harmless platitude, then you are either a mouth-breathing affront to the word 'imbecile' or you're awfully, horribly confused. Obama is finally, publicly not confused. Now all he has left to do is anything at all about it.
