Incredibly, Andrew Sullivan tries to give Obama credit for civil marriage in DC

[ruggerson]

This guy is so out of touch with reality, it's head spinning of Linda Blair magnitude.

President "marriage is between a man and a woman" did not only not cause this legislation to happen, his words and deeds over the past few years created a climate that made it LESS likely to pass.

In other words, the DC City Council passed it in SPITE of Obama, not because of him.

Get a grip, Andy, you've completely lost touch with reality:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/meep-meep.html#more

My own view is that 2009 has been an extraordinarily successful year for Obama. Since this is currently a minority view and will prompt a chorus of "In The Tank!", allow me to explain.
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Domestically, the new president has rescued the banks in a bail-out that has come in at $200 billion under budget; the economy has shifted from a tailspin to stablilization and some prospect of job growth next year; the Dow is at 10,500 a level no one would have predicted this time last year. A stimulus package has helped undergird infrastructure and probably did more to advance non-carbon energy than anything that might have emerged from Copenhagen. Universal health insurance (with promised deficit reduction!) is imminent - a goal sought by Democrats (and Nixon) for decades, impossible under the centrist Clinton, but won finally by a black liberal president. More progress has been made in unraveling the war on drugs this past year than in living memory. The transformation of California into a state where pot is now more available than in Amsterdam is as remarkable as the fact that such new sanity has spread across the country and is at historic highs, so to speak, in the opinion polls. On civil rights, civil marriage came to the nation's capital city, which has a 60 percent black population. If that doesn't help reverse some of the gloom from Prop 8 and Maine, what would?

[joeybee12]

1. Sullivan is a raving lunatic...n/t

[jonnyblitz]

2. he's insane. nt

[Toasterlad]

19. That Pretty Much Sums It Up.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

3. Yep....

the guy is GONE.

[racaulk]

4. Geez...

Hey, Andrew. Some of my "gloom from Prop 8 and Maine" will be reversed when marriage equality is actually passed by a popular vote, which is not how it came to be in DC. Put marriage equality to a popular vote in DC, at least in the forseeable future, and it will go the way of California and Maine. Bank on it.

Andrew Sullivan is detestable being who is beyond delusional, and I can't believe there are others at DU who are actually treating his recent statements as if they have any credibility.

:puke:

[TriMera]

5. What is it with this guy???

I hear the sloppy "SMACK" of a kiss-ass...:mad:

[tbyg52]

6. That's about the size of it and

welcome to DU, such as it is! :hi:

[TriMera]

8. Thanks! Happy to be here. n/t

[tbyg52]

9. Yeah, it's no prize (for a lot of reasons)

but it beats a lot of other places.

[tbyg52]

11. I see you cannot receive PM's yet

If you will PM me when you can, I will send you some info that might be of interest. Or you could have a look at my journal.....

[TriMera]

21. Thanks, again!

I checked it out and will definitely PM when I can. I guess I need to get to work on my journal...

[racaulk]

10. Another welcome to DU!

:hi:

[NMMNG]

7. He's fucking nuts

But then you already knew that.

[QC]

12. I give Obama credit every time the sun comes up in the morning!

And every time the rain falls from the sky I thank Him!

[FLAprogressive]

16. It's His doing you know. He's a fierce advocate of sunrises.

[QC]

17. He is the force that renews and sustains all of creation! n/t

[FLAprogressive]

18. he even parted the Red Sea.

[QC]

20. Oh, that was easy for Him! n/t

[mitchtv]

13. thanks for alerting us

we will be seeing that quote again, real soon

[Unvanguard]

14. Obama had nothing to do with it, most likely, but Congress did.

The fact that both houses are controlled by Democrats is a crucial reason the DC City Council passed it; if Congress were controlled by Republicans, a bill would be brought to the floor to repeal it.

[Starry Messenger]

15. "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"

Talk about being out of touch with the little people. :crazy:

[xchrom]

22. I loathe Sullivan -- creepy bastard. Nt