Axelrod: Obama lied about gay marriage position in 2008

I know you’ll be utterly floored and completely shocked by this news, but apparently Obama lied to get elected in 2008:

TIME – Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons, his former political strategist David Axelrod writes in a new book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.

“I’m just not very good at bullshitting,” Obama told Axelrod, after an event where he stated his opposition to same-sex marriage, according to the book.

Axelrod writes that he knew Obama was in favor of same-sex marriages during the first presidential campaign, even as Obama publicly said he only supported civil unions, not full marriages. Axelrod also admits to counseling Obama to conceal that position for political reasons. “Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred union,’ ” Axelrod writes.

A lot of people seem to care that Brian Williams lied about Iraq. Will anyone care that Obama lied to the American people in order to get their votes in 2008?

That’s a rhetorical question. Of course they won’t care because the media agrees with Obama on gay marriage. They couldn’t care less that he lied about Obamacare. It will be the same for this.


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