Reply #69: Look, I didn't go in with blinders on. [View All]

[lapfog_1]

Very few people even here at DU did. Nobody here thought he was Russ Feingold or Dennis Kucinich. Or at least, I hope they didn't think that.

That's why when he left Gates at SecDef, I didn't say ANYTHING about it. Not one post, either negative or positive.

And he has made some other appointments (to his economic team) that I would rather had been different.

I know he is pragmatic more than anything else.

But what is the purpose of pissing off a significant portion (10%... 20%... maybe more) of his OWN base?

It's not like this gesture is going to win over Rick Warren's supporters.

So why do it? Even if Obama is personally against gay marriage, why stir this pot... and poke the rest of us in the eye with this. Even if it's only for 2 minutes, as you say. It's still the symbolic gesture that hurts. Hurts us (and by us, I mean a lot more than the GLBT community).