The latest flip-flops from Obama after he flipped over FISA, guns, and public financing, is his new stance on gay marriage. He once supported the rights of the states to decide who can marry and who can’t….not anymore. Commence flipping:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who previously said the issue of gay marriage should be left up to each state, has announced his opposition to a California ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriages.
In a letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club read Sunday at the group’s annual Pride Breakfast in San Francisco, the Illinois senator said he supports extending “fully equal rights and benefits to same-sex couples under both state and federal law.”
“And that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states,” Obama wrote.
Obama had previously said he opposes same-sex marriage but that each state should make its own decision.
It doesn’t stop there. Commence flopping:
Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul “slashed the rolls by 80 percent.” Obama leaves out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction.
“I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare,” Obama said on the floor of the Illinois state Senate on May 31, 1997. “Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems.”
Obama’s transformation from opponent to champion of welfare reform is the latest in a series of moves to the center. Since capturing the Democratic nomination, Obama has altered his stances on Social Security taxes, meeting with rogue leaders without preconditions, and the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.’s, sweeping gun ban.
Just more evidence that the man stands for everything, and nothing at the same time. Whatever is going to play well to the electorate at the time will suffice. Shifting your position to convince center right, center left voters to vote for him is the kind of thing Obama was NOT trying to represent. That of the same old dishonest politician. Instead of hope and change he is representing the same old grab for power, anyway, anyhow that we have grown accustomed to.
Ch-ch-change!
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