I guess it just depends on what you think that the nations immediate priorities are... a popular president who might indeed have a 2nd term and doesnt want to ruffle some of his supporters as the idea of same gender marriage equality evolves to where it should be, or an immediate call for Mr. Obama to lay down all of his cards. If he does, he will possibly lose some votes either way. Is that what our liberal minded people really want Obama to do? Let the man decide his own fate I say, but that said, If you get a 2nd term, he will be a strong advocate of your cause if that is truly his idea of right workings, and if he is not elected, you might still get a strong advocate, just one who is not in office. This may indeed be a poker game and who is to say that you who want change immediatel
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Of course the irony of Anderson Cooper calling out the President in 2011 for flip-flopping on gay marriage (being for it as a candidate for Illinois state senate in 1996 and being against it, pragmatically, later) is that Cooper did so from the closet, taking his own sweet time before finally coming out and adding his own voice as a role model for standing up and being unashamed of who he is.
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