They just happen to be a couple months late:
A document has emerged suggesting that Obama had taken more public, liberal stands in the past than had been revealed in the digging of reporters and opposition researchers over two years of campaigning, the latest of several pointing to a rightward shift as he moved into national politics.
In a 1996 questionnaire filled out for a Chicago gay and lesbian newspaper, then called Outlines, Obama came out clearly in favor of same-sex marriage, which he has opposed on the public record throughout his short career in national politics.
“I favor legalizing same-sex marriages,and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages,” Obama wrote in the typed, signed, statement.
There was no use of “civil unions,” and “no compromise whatsoever,” the Windy City Times story today notes.
On another questionnaire the same year, Obama said he would support a resolution in support of same-sex marriage.
The editor of the Windy City Times, a successor of Outlines, Tracy Baim, said she hadn’t deliberately held onto the news until after Obama’s election. Baim, who had been the editor of Outlines at the time, said that just before the election, she ran across the old Outline story saying Obama backed same-sex marriage, but only dug his forgotten questionaire out of an old box this week, having assumed that she’d lost it.
We can find GW’s 25 year old DUI the weekend before the election in 2000, but we can’t find this from 1996? Yeah, I really believe this was just an oversight…
Policy-wise, there’s not much here – like most of Obama’s leftist radicalism, this has been firmly shoved down the memory hole to hang out with Wright, Ayers and Obama’s gun control record, but these are the sorts of things the voters needed to know prior to November 4th, not just prior to January 20th. We can expect more and more like this – the slow dribbling out of all the dirt and radicalism of Obama’s past in order to complete defuse it for the 2010 mid-terms and the 2012 general election. Democrats have learned the lesson of Clinton – if you leak the garbage slowly, people don’t catch on that you’re leading them in to a sewer.
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