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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT's Maureen Dowd: Seeking Original Bliss
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/dowd-seeking-original-bliss.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120513The controlling Obama team did not like the fact that the uncontrollable Bidens forthright statement to David Gregory about being comfortable with gay marriage left the president looking like an equivocator, once more lagging in the leadership department.
So Obama aides began anonymously trashing the vice president, not a pretty spectacle given how loyal Biden is to the president. They told Politico that Bidens getting the jump on Obama was particularly annoying given that Biden had backed the Defense of Marriage Act as a senator in the 1990s while Obama has actually taken steps to repeal the Clinton-era law that defined marriage as something that could only take place between a man and a woman.
And it chafed Obamas team, Politico said, that Biden had, at times, privately argued for the president to hold off on his support of marriage equality to avoid a backlash among Catholic voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Biden felt compelled to apologize to the president for inadvertently nudging him to do the right thing.
So Obama aides began anonymously trashing the vice president, not a pretty spectacle given how loyal Biden is to the president. They told Politico that Bidens getting the jump on Obama was particularly annoying given that Biden had backed the Defense of Marriage Act as a senator in the 1990s while Obama has actually taken steps to repeal the Clinton-era law that defined marriage as something that could only take place between a man and a woman.
And it chafed Obamas team, Politico said, that Biden had, at times, privately argued for the president to hold off on his support of marriage equality to avoid a backlash among Catholic voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Biden felt compelled to apologize to the president for inadvertently nudging him to do the right thing.
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NYT's Maureen Dowd: Seeking Original Bliss (Original Post)
Scuba
May 2012
OP
pfft! i don't read dowd cuz i've never seen her say anything substantive
struggle4progress
May 2012
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dionysus
(26,467 posts)1. glad to see dowd is bitter as aways
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)2. Herding cats is a tough business
Obama's team is rather successful, don't you think?
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)3. Moremean Dowdy...
incoherent as usual...
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)5. Maureen Dowd is an out and out unabashed bigot.
In her universe men don't even have a right to exist.
struggle4progress
(118,278 posts)4. pfft! i don't read dowd cuz i've never seen her say anything substantive