Maybe it's because no one ever really believed him in the first place, but David Axelrod's acknowledgement that President Obama was always lying about his position on gay marriage has not exactly gotten a lot of attention from the media. It's not often that a president's own political guru tells the world that he blatantly lied in order to win an election, but maybe that's a thing of the past. Maybe we're in a new age when expectations of honesty from politicians - however naive such an expectation might be - are now seen as so quaint and adorable that strategists will frequently and quite openly come out and tell us when they instructed a candidate to lie to us for our own good.
