Former President William Jefferson Clinton is now "basically in support" of same-sex marriage. While he still does not believe gay marriage should be a federal matter, Clinton, who somehow signed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act with a straight face, said, "I personally support people doing what they want to do," Clinton said. "I think it's wrong for someone to stop someone else from doing that." In related news, I am too completely outraged to add any additional commentary.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Gah! This was the major reason I didn't vote for him the second time around. Although, truth be told I would have voted for him if the election had been close, but it wasn't, thus allowing me to register my impotent outrage in a ineffectual manner via useless gesture, namely, voting for Tom Hayden (I'm not proud. A little ashamed, actually. But I was pissed! Stupid two party system.)
It's easier to have opinions when you are a former President, though apparently it's not any easier to say, "I did this for political reasons and I'm not proud of that." (For that admission I guess we'll have to wait for the memoir sealed until a century after his death.)
Hell, Dick Cheney is more pro-gay than that.
What if "what [I] want to do" is to come over there and knock the cigar out of your twat, Bill? Is "wrong for someone to stop [me] from doing that?"
You know? I just did one of those Amazon "search inside" things for Clinton's "My Life". DOMA, a huge deal at the time, is never mentioned in the book, despite being a rather huge thing at the time.
As I'm a little involved with marriage equality, the legislative history of how we ended up with DOMA is irksomely irritating. There isn't enough time to spell it all out, but here's an interesting little bit from 1996, talking about how HRC thought they would tack on ENDA to DOMA to take the sting out of the bill: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/orgs/HRC/1996/enda.doma.strategy-07.23.96 In the end, the ENDA amendment was stricken and HRC was played like a cheap ukulele.
"a huge deal at the time, is never mentioned in the book, despite being a rather huge thing at the time"
Sigh.
It's okay. He still doesn't have the balls to bring it up.
That's huge.
Shut. Up. Bill.
Go fuck yourself Bill.
What a FUCKING DOUCHEBAG! Now that Bill is powerless to affect anything .. he speaks. Then again, why should anyone be surprised at his douchiness. Clinton was ready willing and able to play at the margins of racialism during the 2008 campaign, even though it was African-Americans who saved his goddam bacon after the Mark Rich- Carnegie Towers Officegate (he moved to Harlem) post-Presidential period.
Bill Clinton is such an untrustworthy, damaged, fatherless Man-child pretending at being a man. Just sad, really.
Apparently, he has a great double-pump handshake that makes women weak and votery....