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Does anyone really even care that much about gay marriage? If you can't find work, are paying $4 a gallon for gas, have a loved one fighting in Afghanistan, and are struggling with rising food costs, is this really what anyone cares about? It's very relieving to know that the economic crisis is over, because the only thing the Democrats want to talk about is birth control, gay marriage, and Mitt Romney's 1980's road trip with his dog, Seamus. So with Obama's orchestrated gay marriage roll out, Americans have to suffer yet another distraction from everything Obama has done (and failed to do) over the past four years.

But shouldn't gays be more insulted than anything over Obama's laugh-out-loud "evolution" on the issue? Everyone knew Obama was lying during the 2008 campaign when he claimed to believe marriage was between a man and a woman. If he were courageous, he would have been honest then. But it didn't matter. Obama was embarrassed of his position on gays and lied about it. Honestly, his opposition to gay marriage was about as sincere as his pledge to not raise taxes (ha), to not hire lobbyists (haha), or to go through the budget with "a scalpel" (not enough ha-has in the world).

The internal polling for Obama must be brutal. His political strength -- the under-30 crowd -- can't find work and the newness of Obama has worn off. He's trailing Romney, a supposedly wooden, woman-hating, unlikeable, out-of-touch rich guy by 3 and 4 points according to Rasmussen and Gallup daily tracking polls. (But worry not, two other polls give Obama leads by oversampling Democrats by 9 and 8 points).

So here we are. Obama has suddenly "evolved" on the issue of gay marriage, and is now bullying those who held the same position he did just a few days ago. And with Obama's announcement came his promise to do absolutely nothing. For the first time in history, Obama comes out with a federalist argument on an issue, so at least that is some progress. And with a few sweet-talked words, the money poured in and Obama's 2008 gay marriage base has come back home. And he didn't even have to actually do anything in return. As Condoleezza Rice once commented about being a black, female republican: "I'd rather be ignored than patronized." Obama believes that there are enough single-issue voters who will once again fall for his sweet-talking campaign tactics, as he makes the same promises in 2012 that he did in 2008. He could be right.

Obama More Insulting than Gutsy on Gay Marriage originally appeared on About.com Conservative Politics: U.S. on Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 14:20:01.

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