Pelosi Steps Up as Obama Continues to Cower

February 16, 2012 at 5:05 am

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WOW Staff
WOW Staff

Freedom to Marry recently announced that they were going to start pushing the Democrats to actually live up to their rhetoric on equality.  If the Democrats really support the full equality of Gay and Lesbian citizens then marriage equality should be an official part of the Democratic Party Platform. And yesterday Freedom to Marry scored quite the get when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced that she fully supports the inclusion of marriage equality to the party platform! Unfortunately, in the face of such bold moves, our so-called “fierce advocate” continues to cower in the White House.  Metro Weekly reports:  “And the leader of the party, President Obama, opposed marriage equality in the 2008 campaign. He said in December 2010 that his position on marriage equality was ‘evolving’ but that he still ‘struggle[s]’ with it. His press secretary, Jay Carney, said this past week of Obama’s position, ‘You know his position, where it stands now, on the issue of same-sex marriage, so I really don’t have much to add on that.’” Metro Weekly continued to send several requests for comments regarding the president’s position on the Democratic Party Platform and marriage equality to no avail.

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  • JimmyD

    Cower? Thank you Fox News.

    • princessjohnson

      i blame legendary 80s details editor saban & the pop tarts. they tacitly enable this trash!
      what would oprah say?
      what would rupaul say?
      OBAMA 2012
      CHANGE IS WHAT’S HAPPENING!

      • AuntieW

        Obama is afraid to say what he probably feels and knows is right. Thought he wasn’t afraid to make great promises before he scored his first term. His interests are his second term above values, which was the kind of change he was supposed to stand for back in 2008 when he was the new hope. Time for him to step up and deliver/ at the very least assure us we’re still on his mind. “Evolving” is tactful cowardice and not much more. 

      • AuntieW

        Obama is afraid to say what he probably feels and knows is right. Thought he wasn’t afraid to make great promises before he scored his first term. His interests are his second term above values, which was the kind of change he was supposed to stand for back in 2008 when he was the new hope. Time for him to step up and deliver/ at the very least assure us we’re still on his mind. “Evolving” is tactful cowardice and not much more. 

      • AuntieW

        Obama is afraid to say what he probably feels and knows is right. Thought he wasn’t afraid to make great promises before he scored his first term. His interests are his second term above values, which was the kind of change he was supposed to stand for back in 2008 when he was the new hope. Time for him to step up and deliver/ at the very least assure us we’re still on his mind. “Evolving” is tactful cowardice and not much more. 

        • AuntieW

          Er thought = Though. 

          • princessjohnson

            REMEMBER TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC IN THE FALL.

          • princessjohnson

            REMEMBER TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC IN THE FALL.

          • princessjohnson

            REMEMBER TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC IN THE FALL.

          • princessjohnson

            REMEMBER TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC IN THE FALL.

        • AuntieW

          Er thought = Though. 

        • AuntieW

          Er thought = Though. 

        • AuntieW

          Er thought = Though. 

        • AuntieW

          Er thought = Though. 

      • AuntieW

        Obama is afraid to say what he probably feels and knows is right. Thought he wasn’t afraid to make great promises before he scored his first term. His interests are his second term above values, which was the kind of change he was supposed to stand for back in 2008 when he was the new hope. Time for him to step up and deliver/ at the very least assure us we’re still on his mind. “Evolving” is tactful cowardice and not much more. 

      • AuntieW

        Obama is afraid to say what he probably feels and knows is right. Thought he wasn’t afraid to make great promises before he scored his first term. His interests are his second term above values, which was the kind of change he was supposed to stand for back in 2008 when he was the new hope. Time for him to step up and deliver/ at the very least assure us we’re still on his mind. “Evolving” is tactful cowardice and not much more. 

  • AguynamedWayne

    “And the leader of the party, President Obama, opposed marriage equality in the 2008 campaign. He said in December 2010 that his position on marriage equality was ‘evolving’ but that he still ‘struggle[s]’ with it. His press secretary, Jay Carney, said this past week of Obama’s position, ‘You know his position, where it stands now, on the issue of same-sex marriage, so I really don’t have much to add on that.’” Metro Weekly continued to send several requests for comments regarding the president’s position on the Democratic Party Platform and marriage equality to no avail. 

    Cower (definition): to shrink away from something that dismays; to cringe in fear

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyBlaze0 JohnnyBlaze0

    I feel you Wayne, but he can’t do anything for us if he doesn’t get re-elected.

    • AguynamedWayne

      “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

    • AguynamedWayne

      “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Simon

    He has to win Ohio and Florida, right? So, unless you want President Santorum (or Romney) support the man who helped dismantle DADT and enact the Matt Shepard Hate Crimes bill. OBAMA 2012

    • AguynamedWayne

      So a coward of politician too afraid to do what is right because it might hurt his chances of being re-elected is someone you trust to defend your equality after the election? LOL

  • Simon

    Oh and btw Wayne, marriage isn’t EVERYTHING to every LGBT person. Ask a homeless gay kid in Compton if federal marriage rights is his first priority–or a trans woman in Mississippi, for that matter.

    • AguynamedWayne

      Oh and btw Simon, you and your trivialization of equality can fuck off. :)

      • Simon

        You can fuck off, actually. Your single-handled hatred toward Obama is starting to look a little race-related, to be honest.