Amidst all the liberal media's fawning over Barack Obama's "historic" announcement that he is now in favor of same-sex marriage, I couldn't help but remember the words of Senator John Kerry during his 2004 presidential bid, "I actually voted for the war before I voted against it." President Obama went one better: He was actually for same-sex marriage, before he was against it, before he was for it.
For Kerry, his poor choice of words notwithstanding, there were actually extenuating circumstances behind the flip-flop. In President Obama's case, it is clearly more of a matter of political expediency than core belief. This of course will be overlooked by Obama's liberal base, won't do anything to help him with moderates and will motivate conservatives even more to turn out on election day. Time will ultimately tell if this will have the same effect on Obama in 2012 as it did for Kerry in 2004.
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