He managed to put six degrees of subjectivity into what should have been a simple declarative sentence.Īccording to the soap opera scripted by the White House, the President was hurried into making his confession by Joe Biden's reckless comments to the same effect.
'I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think.' The President never seems to be able to talk about anything, from sports to global warming, without making himself the center of the story.
Roberts' girlish awe is more than justified by the clarity and brilliance of Obama's rhetoric: 'At a certain point, I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.' This morning Roberts told her colleague George Stephanopoulos that she still gets chills just thinking about it! President Barack Obama has said that he supports gay marriageĪmericans were shocked, absolutely shocked yesterday, when President Obama, after a long period of profound meditation, revealed to Robin Roberts that he does not oppose same-sex marriage.