All Hail President Barack Obama, Champion of Civil Rights,
Defender of Equality.
After waiting for 29 other states to make similar provisions
regarding "gay marriage," he finally stepped off
the fence and made a statement. He supports gay marriage. I'd like to say that he "took a
stand" in favor of equality, but that's not the case. While diehard Obama
fanatics will defend his new-found position to their graves, claiming it marks him
as a brave defender of the underdog, the protector of the little person, the representative
for downtrodden, unprotected minority, the real world sees this ploy for what
it is: a desperate chance to cling to supporters he has been losing. Nothing more.
In the same day that news spread that his voter base would
rather vote
for an inmate than continue supporting the President, Mr. Obama did not cast his support in favor of
anything. He simply appealed to the voter base he is afraid of losing. Make no
mistake about it, before he made his casting his support for gay marriage -- effectively making a statement against North Carolina's Amendment One -- he was losing support. Big time. (Feel free to
visit Change.org's
website to view a plethora of petitions to change the site of the upcoming DNC
to a different location in protest of North Carolina's decision as one such
example. Note: some of the
petitions have been removed since Barack's endorsement in favor of gay
marriage.)
His conveniently-timed reversal means one thing: money. The man is the Fundraiser In-Chief. Now, if you missed your opportunity on Twitter to get a free dinner and photo op with Obama and actor George Clooney, you still have a mulligan opportunity: throw down $40,000 for a fundraising dinner to support Barry's campaign.
Yes, we know he still thinks the United States military is
out in the world defending him
and him alone, but is he really returning the favor to the world by defending the
civil rights of the helpless? No. Barack Obama had 29 other state vote opportunities
to take a stand, but he chose to sit on the fence. His support of gay marriage would have been historic if he had lead the way, if he had been in campaigning in North Carolina as the debate slowly swung in favor of passing the amendment, or you know, if he would have been actually leading the issue. Instead, he let Biden go out and do the talking for him "on behalf of the administration," because he couldn't be caught dead making a statement if he didn't have to. Mr. Obama spends the majority of his president snaking silently along, avoiding answers to hard questions, acting appalled when people have the audacity to question his political question mark of a track record, and continuing to vote "present" instead of giving a firm 'Yay' or 'Nay' on hot topic issues.
On the issue of gay marriage, the president has quietly sat in the shadows for the last three years hoping that the nation's vision is actually based on movement, and so long as he stayed still, we'd never know he was there. Saying nothing. Taking a stand for nothing. Voting "present."
Despite his propaganda spinning the "war on women," despite his condemnation and meddling in the Trayvon Martin case, and despite his stance on homosexual marriages yesterday, the fact still remains:
On the issue of gay marriage, the president has quietly sat in the shadows for the last three years hoping that the nation's vision is actually based on movement, and so long as he stayed still, we'd never know he was there. Saying nothing. Taking a stand for nothing. Voting "present."
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| Biden, FREEZE! |
Despite his propaganda spinning the "war on women," despite his condemnation and meddling in the Trayvon Martin case, and despite his stance on homosexual marriages yesterday, the fact still remains:
If Barack Obama REALLY wants to defend the downtrodden and
protect the unprotected in the name of civil rights, he needs to let his stance
on abortion do some "evolving" as
well.
Until Mr. Obama is willing to fight for the constitutional
right to life for the unborn human children that are being systematically
murdered each year, Obama's words are empty. To champion liberty and civil
rights, the president can't selectively pick which group he wants to defend and
which he wants to ignore. Sure, various
civil liberty groups may cheer in the meantime and erect statues in his name,
but to those of us who understand the grave implications of a nation who does
not value the lives of its most vulnerable, the most helpless underdog segment
of our community, we will continue to wait for the President's statement condemning
abortion.
Let the outrage continuing to bubble up among the civil
rights community at the atrocities of injustice and inequality start and end with
a presidential statement affirming our most basic civil and constitutional right:
life.
~Gee
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