Necessitates
It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Obama’s thinking about what he once called “a war of necessity” began to radically change less than a year after he took up residency in the White House. (NYT, 5/19/2012)
It's and Evolution Revolution!
Recall that Afghanistan was the war that Obama said he wanted to fight during the last presidential campaign. Bush had it all wrong he said. The fight was in Afghanistan, not Iraq. "Less than one year" later he changes his mind....er, evolves. It's a joke, of course. Obama did not want to fight ANY wars. He simply wanted to look tough for the electorate (knowing the people would not elect a 'weak on defense' president) and he wanted to criticize Bush.
Percentages
Yet there is greater opposition among black Democrats than white Democrats. Sixty-one percent of white Democrats supported legalizing marriage for same-sex couples, compared with 36 percent of black Democrats, while 35 percent of black Democrats opposed any legal recognition, compared with 18 percent of white Democrats. (NYT, 5/19/2012)
We have heard conservative opponents of gay marriage described as homophobes, bigots, religious zealots, you name it. And black Democrat opponents - of which there are apparently many - are......what?
New York Times Gay Count - three gay-themed articles today.
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