By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--February 11, 2015
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Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons, his former political strategist David Axelrod writes in a new book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. “I’m just not very good at bullshitting,” Obama told Axelrod, after an event where he stated his opposition to same-sex marriage, according to the book. Axelrod writes that he knew Obama was in favor of same-sex marriages during the first presidential campaign, even as Obama publicly said he only supported civil unions, not full marriages. Axelrod also admits to counseling Obama to conceal that position for political reasons. “Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred union,’ ” Axelrod writes.Got that, black pastors? Obama's deception was aimed at you as much as anyone. Any instinct Obama might have had to level with you about his beliefs was laid aside out of deference to the "more pragmatic folks" who understand that you can't be honest with the folks in the black churches. It was too important to Obama that you turn out for him in big numbers, and if you knew what he really believed, you might not have given him what he needed from you. Makes you feel great about supporting him, yes? That's why we ended up listening to him making labored pronouncements like this one:
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