President Obama and His Stand Regarding Same- Sex Marriage
President Obama, to me, will always be remembered as a Philosopher, a dreamer and a person full of empty promises to win political momentum on an election year.
The last time around when Secretary of State Mrs. Clinton announced her candidacy for president, winds of change became part of many Americans hopes and dreams, and for many straight and gay men and women, having a woman for president – after so many men have destroyed our country’s opinion in the world – was the best thing that could ever happen to get us out of the Bushes era we all had to endured.
Politics create Politicians, and Politics are games of bait and hook.
President Obama moved many Young and Old African and Hispanic Americans and won their vote because he was seen as a “messiah”, a Marvelous, Well Versed man who inspired the masses and took on the “Si Se Puede“ or “Yes We Can” voice of many immigrants looking for a path to legalization, and turned it into his Campaign Slogan.
Now, that after President Obama’s first term is about to end, what does he have to show for his promises of change? A Health Care Reform being contested in the Supreme Court, the Nationalization of Freddie Mac and Fannie May and other companies, the most deported illegal alien numbers in the U.S. History and an economy still in rumbles.
Without the Hispanic vote he will most probably not win and he needed one Big Change of Policy that – win or lose – was going to excite his base of voters and bring him back to the Front Page of Newspapers so he could become the most talked about person in a week in all media outlets.
Pro-marriage Homosexuals are excited, Young College Students are excited, Hispanic Americans are exited, Wedding Planners and everyone involved in the Multi-Million Bridal Business are excited, but will it be enough to win another four-year term?
Fortunately for him, Hispanic American are not going to vote for Mr. Romney, especially since he is completely against some kind of immigration reform, but this time around they must just sit at home and not vote at all.
For most Anglo and African-Americans, the problem of immigration must be completely irrelevant and non-important and they might have other issues that they might want to have resolved sooner.
Hispanic Americans on the other hand believe that an immigration reform is necessary because of the millions of family members that either were brought here when they were babies and now are not able to get an education or get a legal job, or of the millions of family members that are on a Temporary Protected Status and have to renew their Work Permits every year without knowing if it is going to be granted for another twelve months.
Hispanic Americans were promised an Immigration Reform, Homosexual Americans have not been promised the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage yet – let’s be clear on that – but President Obama is the first U.S. President to have said that he “Thinks same-sex couples should be able to get married”, unfortunately, from saying to doing there is a long winding, tumultuous way to go.
By recent polls, it seems he has not lost votes and he has received the momentum to raise enough funds that his campaign needed to cloud Mitt Romney‘s claim of the GOP Presidential Nomination;
I now feel for all the souls that are going to fall for the same old political tricks, and that, four years from now – they will still be left with no same-sex marriage act to allow the many Homosexual Americans that want to legalize their unions.
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