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Rick Klein / Yahoo! Good Morning America:
President Obama Affirms His Support for Same Sex Marriage  —  President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.  In an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts …
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Backs Same-Sex Marriage  —  Updated President Obama declared for the first time on Wednesday that he supports same-sex marriage, putting the moral power of his presidency behind a social issue that continues to divide the country.  “At a certain point,” Mr. Obama said in an interview …
Log Cabin Republicans:
Obama Announcement Is Cold Comfort to LGBT Americans  —  (Washington, DC) - Log Cabin Republicans respond to President Barack Obama's latest evolution on the freedom to marry.  —  “That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One …
E.J. Graff / American Prospect:
I Am Gobsmacked  —  Well, I guess I'm cynical.  I had a list of reasons as long as my arm for President Obama NOT to state that he favors equal marriage.  My heart is turning such cartwheels that I am not sure I can write anything cogent.  —  Here's what I was all ready to say before the announcement:
Discussion: pandagon.net
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Obama Embraces Marriage Equality  —  President Obama has come out in support of marriage equality for gay and lesbian people in an interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts this afternoon: … Watch it:  —  His endorsement comes less than a week after Vice President Joe Biden embraced …
New York Times:
Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.
Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard:
‘On My Behalf’  —  The debate over same sex “marriage” has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.  Then there is Barack Obama.  —  In his ABC interview, the president pretended that his much touted “evolution” had now led him, ineluctably, to speak out now, today; he simply could longer stay silent.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
An Obama Gay Marriage Timeline  —  President Obama may come out in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage today in an interview with the ABC News.  It's been a long and winding road there.  —  Obama in 1996: “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.”
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Noted gay-marriage supporter finally drops cynical charade  —  Via Mediaite, 16 years after going on the record in support of gay marriage, The One finally decides it's safe to reclaim his old position.  (AmSpec's James Antle tweets, “Obama may be the only person in America …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
President Obama's calculated gamble on gay marriage  —  President Obama's decision to express support for gay marriage in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts is a decision that comes with real political risk.  —  President Obama declares his support for gay marriage in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News.
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Top social conservative worried the right may lose on gay marriage
Discussion: Reuters
M.S. / Democracy in America:
Good for Obama, bad for gay marriage
Andrew Rosenthal / Taking Note:
The President Speaks Out (Finally) on Marriage
Discussion: Vox Popoli
BuzzFeed:
Leaked: White House Talking Points On Gay Marriage Flip
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Gay Marriage Reversal Means Cash For Obama
Fox News:
Obama backs gay marriage, answering speculation on ‘evolving’ position
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: Former Sen. Danforth (R) Says GOP Becoming ‘Increasingly Inconsequential,’ ‘Intolerant’  —  Former Ambassador to the UN and U.S. Sen. John Danforth (R-MO)  —  In 2010, former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) told the New York Times that “If Dick Lugar, having served five terms …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Sore Lugar  —  For a “statesman,” he's sure acting childish.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Lugar's Demise and the Constitutional Crisis
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Romney in Colorado: “I do not favor civil unions”  —  DENVER — Mitt Romney, who's now a sure bet to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee this fall, commented about gay marriage and civil unions during an interview with FOX31 Denver's Jeremy Hubbard Wednesday.
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Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
Asked About Gay Marriage, Romney Doesn't Answer
Sarah Huisenga / CBS News:
Romney affirms opposition to same-sex marriage
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:   Republicans: Our Position Is Clear, Marriage Is Between One Man And One Woman
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Shep Smith: ‘Wrong side of history’  —  Fox News anchor Shep Smith made his own news today when he said President Obama was “now in the 21st century” after announcing his support for same-sex marriage.  Minutes later, in a conversation with colleague Bret Baier, he added:
Discussion: The Raw Story
Peter Taylor / BBC:
‘Vomiting and screaming’ in destroyed waterboarding tapes  —  Jose Rodriguez told Newsnight he was right to destroy the tapes  —  Secret CIA video tapes of the waterboarding of Osama Bin Laden's suspected jihadist travel arranger Abu Zubaydah show him vomiting and screaming, the BBC has learned.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Bill Dedman / msnbc.com:
Conservative author Jonah Goldberg drops claim of two Pulitzer nominations  —  On the dust jacket of his new book, “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas,” best-selling conservative author and commentator Jonah Goldberg is described as having “twice been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.”
Dan Froomkin / Reuters:
Colin Powell's New Book: War With Iraq Never Debated … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, War Wire, Video, Iraq WMD, Scooter Libby, Works For Me, Politics News  —  WASHINGTON — In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Naomi Schaefer Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The Academic Mob Rules  —  Instead of encouraging wide discussion, the Chronicle of Higher Education fires a blogger.  —  Recently, the Chronicle of Higher Education published a cover story called “Black Studies: ‘Swaggering Into the Future,’” in which the reporter described how …
 
 
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