Kuroda I was surprised to see Obama come out for gay marriage – it’s a long-term winning issue, but in the short term it’s risky, and I don’t associate Obama with risk. But then a day later as if on cue out comes the dirt on Romney – that he teased gay students in his high school (“Atta girl”) and led a “posse” of boys to ambush a long-haired boy and forcibly cut off his hair. The terrible thing about the story is how much it feels right – that Romney’s nervous and unsettling need for absolute conformity to external sources of meaning and normalcy was present even in high school, and that he has apparently never had any effective source of inner integrity. And his lame apology seems perfectly scripted to showcase his human vacuity. And the story is much more effective for the contrast with Obama’s now-public support of gay marriage.
order isotretinoin online Obama never has to talk about the Romney story and I bet he never will. Romney is just going to be Facebooked to death by stories like this. Obama has apparently decided to make gay rights one of his chief motivating factors to get his electorate out. It’s a fascinating move. It’s also Rovian. Obama’s base – college-educated first-half-of-lifers like myself who volunteered for his campaign last time around – may not be too impressed by his records on civil rights, U.S. imperialism, the unabated concentration of wealth, or the protection of the middle class. So he’ll motivate us with Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter and “social issues.”
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