Same Sex Marriage, Depending on What the Meaning of the Word Is Is

Here's the quote I'm getting from CNN: "it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."

Is that really an endorsement of gay marriage?  I know a few specific Republicans who have numerous times told me that they have nothing against gay marriage at all.  They just don't think it should be the law of the land. Isn't that nearly exactly what the president is saying here too?

Seems like this statement is just another one of these weird word games where a politician doesn't just come right out and truly say what he/she thinks.  To me, Obama's newest stance seems to create more questions than answers.

The Same Mentality From the Same Region

It's a good thing North Carolina fixed their unemployment, their high poverty rates, their dilapidated schools and their budget deficits before they began their crusade to legislate the Bible.

"I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about niggers, and they stomped the floor." -- George Wallace.

Hope and Change

I think a lot of times the Obama rhetoric of Hope and Change too often gets taken out of context.  I hope no one expected that just because we elected our first black president that everything in America would be great.  Surely no one is that naive.  Likewise, Republicans like to paint the meaning of Hope and Change as being all-encompassing as meaning within 4 years America would be experiencing the greatest awesomeness ever.  Much to their chagrin, that was never the message, the promise or the intention.

Hope and Change has simply always been exactly what it says.  And anyone who tries to deny that things have changed and that such change brings greater hope to millions is ignoring a reality that long ago passed them by. Noticeably the people who complain the most about not enough Hope and Change are the one's who didn't vote for Obama in the first place.  In other words, the people who didn't want Hope and Change are now complaining there hasn't been enough.

Of course their Hope and Change is far different from the Hope and Change the picture below exemplifies.  I'll take that change any day.

President Obama sitting in seat Rosa Parks refused to leave