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In reply to the discussion: Why did progressives support Howard Dean?? [View all]JonLP24
(29,949 posts)War on terror policy (I'm not talking Afghanistan when I say this) shows very clear differences to what he said and what he's done. This area really features my own problem with his Preisdency.
He actually waffled on gay marriage.
In 1996, Obama, then an Illinois state senate candidate, seemed to back marriages for same-sex couples when he signed a statement in response to a questionnaire that read "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages." The statement was later publicly disavowed by White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, who claimed in June 2011 that the questionnaire was "actually filled out by someone else."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/dissecting-president-obamas-evolution-gay-marriage/story?id=18792720&page=2
That 96 opinion was fairly well known when it came to debates over his stated policy during the campaign.