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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 970957" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Poor Joe, it’s not his fault he’s stupid.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Via <a href="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=15AFE150-6103-495D-A433-5AA6910BE863" target="_blank">Weekly Standard</a>:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Joe Biden just might go down in history as the guy who forced Barack Obama to publicly announce his private support for gay marriage.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">But the vice president is no hero in the West Wing, and administration officials are struggling to cast Obama’s truly historic — and risky — announcement as something more than an election-year shotgun wedding.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Senior administration officials admit that Biden’s comment was, indeed, the catalyst for Obama to make his historic announcement weeks earlier than planned.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">But Biden’s remarks on “Meet the Press” deeply annoyed Obama’s team, people close to the situation tell POLITICO, because it aggrandized his role at the expense of Obama’s yeoman efforts on behalf of the community and pushed up the timing of a sensitive announcement they had hoped to break — at a time and place of their own choosing — in the weeks leading up to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this fall.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Nor did it tickle anyone, from Obama on down, that Biden — who backed the Defense of Marriage Act while serving in the Senate in the 1990s — seemed to be getting more credit in the LGBT community than a president who has actually taken steps to repeal the Clinton-era law that defined marriage as something that could only take place between a man and a woman.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">And it chafed Obama’s team that Biden had, at times, privately argued for the president to hold off on his support of marriage equality to avoid a backlash among Catholic voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to two officials familiar with those discussions.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">The White House hopes the historic nature of Obama’s decision will eventually overshadow the sloppiness of the process that led to it.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 970957, member: 1246"] Poor Joe, it’s not his fault he’s stupid. Via [URL="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=15AFE150-6103-495D-A433-5AA6910BE863"]Weekly Standard[/URL]: [INDENT]Joe Biden just might go down in history as the guy who forced Barack Obama to publicly announce his private support for gay marriage. But the vice president is no hero in the West Wing, and administration officials are struggling to cast Obama’s truly historic — and risky — announcement as something more than an election-year shotgun wedding. Senior administration officials admit that Biden’s comment was, indeed, the catalyst for Obama to make his historic announcement weeks earlier than planned. But Biden’s remarks on “Meet the Press” deeply annoyed Obama’s team, people close to the situation tell POLITICO, because it aggrandized his role at the expense of Obama’s yeoman efforts on behalf of the community and pushed up the timing of a sensitive announcement they had hoped to break — at a time and place of their own choosing — in the weeks leading up to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this fall. Nor did it tickle anyone, from Obama on down, that Biden — who backed the Defense of Marriage Act while serving in the Senate in the 1990s — seemed to be getting more credit in the LGBT community than a president who has actually taken steps to repeal the Clinton-era law that defined marriage as something that could only take place between a man and a woman. And it chafed Obama’s team that Biden had, at times, privately argued for the president to hold off on his support of marriage equality to avoid a backlash among Catholic voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to two officials familiar with those discussions. The White House hopes the historic nature of Obama’s decision will eventually overshadow the sloppiness of the process that led to it. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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