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Obama criticizes Romney as 'backwards on equality'
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018185302_apusobama14thldwritethru.htmlOriginally published Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 9:33 PM
Obama criticizes Romney as 'backwards on equality'
President Barack Obama wasted little time casting his historic embrace of same-sex marriage as a political wedge issue Thursday, telling a Hollywood fundraising crowd that it shows how his vision of the country differs from Republicans.
By JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES —
President Barack Obama wasted little time casting his historic embrace of same-sex marriage as a political wedge issue Thursday, telling a Hollywood fundraising crowd that it shows how his vision of the country differs from Republicans.
Speaking at a dinner at the home of George Clooney, Obama raised the issue gay marriage obliquely, saying simply to enthusiastic applause: "Obviously, yesterday we made some news."
"It was a logical extension of what America is supposed to be," he said. "It grew directly out of this difference in visions: Are we a country that includes everybody and give everybody a shot and treats everybody fairly?"
