Most recently, for instance, Vice President Biden previewed the president’s “evolution” on the issue of same sex marriage on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” The press, predictably, made it the next day story.
Two days later, the voters of North Carolina, in large numbers and by a wide (61-39%) margin, voted against same-sex marriage. As messages go, it was hard to misread.
The very next day, President Obama told the North Carolina knuckleheads to take their referendum and shove it; he endorsed same sex marriage, although he didn’t make a federal case out of it. He left it for the states to work out the legislative details (conveniently enough).
The mishandling of the President’s endorsement of same sex marriage sent the president’s re-election prospects into a tailspin; electoral college handicappers busily moved North Carolina from “toss-up” to “likely Republican.” And it necessitated today’s “let’s-get-the-media-talking-about-something-else” news event (the Bain attack ad).
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