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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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Politico:
Biden blamed; politics drove timing  —  Joe Biden just might go down in history as the guy who forced Barack Obama to publicly announce his private support for gay marriage.  —  But the vice president is no hero in the West Wing, and administration officials are struggling to cast Obama's truly historic …
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.
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Top social conservative worried the right may lose on gay marriage  —  Conservative religious leaders predicted President Obama's support of gay marriage will hurt him this election — but one fretted that the tide has turned against them long-term on the issue, and that Obama's statement could further erode their position long-term.
John Cook / Gawker:
Barack Obama's Bulls**t Gay Marriage Announcement  —  ABC News has only released one brief clip of Obama's conversation about gay marriage today, but it seems fairly clear from the network's coverage that his announcement amounts to much less than meets the eye.  He now believes that gay couples should be able to marry.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
News Analysis: Obama's Watershed Move on Gay Marriage  —  President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage on Wednesday was by any measure a watershed.  A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement, providing the most powerful evidence …
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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.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama Lets Go Of Fear  —  [Re-posted from earlier today.]  —  I do not know how orchestrated this was; and I do not know how calculated it is.  What I know is that, absorbing the news, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to write, and, like many Dish readers, there are tears in my eyes.
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 …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Evolves
E.J. Graff / American Prospect:
I Am Gobsmacked
Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Bring It On: Obama Rallies the Base With Gay Marriage Endorsement
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Politico
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
The Influence Industry: Same-sex marriage issue shows importance of gay fundraisers
Matthew Dowd / The Huffington Post:
The Facts: Gay Marriage Didn't Tilt 2004 Election
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Rush Limbaugh:
Obama Declares War on Traditional America
Discussion: Good As You and Poynter
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
News Analysis: Obama's Marriage Equality Support Is Not the Half-Loaf Some Are Claiming
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jeffrey Bell / Weekly Standard:
Gay Marriage: North Carolina and the Nation
Discussion: alicublog
BuzzFeed:
Leaked: White House Talking Points On Gay Marriage Flip
Discussion: Weekly Standard
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 Other McCain and The Raw Story
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Fox Nation: “OBAMA FLIP FLOPS, DECLARES WAR ON MARRIAGE”  —  In response to President Obama's declaration of support for marriage equality this afternoon, Fox Nation ran the following headline:  —  Fox Nation's post linked to a Yahoo News article on Obama's announcement, which ran the headline …
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
A Terrible, No Good, Awful Night for Barack Obama  —  One initial point to ponder: if the No-H8 campaign tries to fire up in North Carolina as the No-A1 campaign, people will wonder why they are campaigning against steak sauce.  Probably won't happen.  North Carolina did not pass a ban on gay marriage as the media reports.
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Fox News:
Longtime GOP Sen. Richard Lugar loses Indiana primary to challenger Richard Mourdock
New York Times:
Obama's New Courting of Hollywood Pays Off  —  LOS ANGELES — For years, President Obama has largely been absent in Hollywood, a point of unhappiness with a community accustomed to the constant doting of Bill Clinton.  But over the last few months, Mr. Obama and his representatives have held …
Discussion: The Caucus
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CNN:
TRENDING: Dinner with Clooney, Obama nets $15 million
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Katherine Ellison / The Atlantic Online:
An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts  —  Industry giants say their case is misguided.  But that isn't stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands.  —  Alec Loorz turns 18 at the end of this month.
ABCNEWS:
Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum put out a statement blasting President Obama's decision to support same-sex marriage Wednesday.  —  Although his thoughts on the topic were not unusual, the group it came from was not the old Rick Santorum for President organization.
Discussion: GOP 12
Scott Gottlieb / RealClearMarkets:
The Obama Health Plan Will Squeeze the Middle Class  —  President Obama promised that the brunt of any financial reckoning will fall mostly only on those making more than $250,000 annually.  Under his healthcare plan, the economic agony starts at income levels that fall much lower than that.
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: Addicting Info and ThinkProgress
 
 
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