Will the President Address the Nation to Protect Marriage?
The President took to the airwaves Monday night from the Oval Office to use the bully pulpit to push his Amnesty/Guest Worker proposal...will he give the same attention to protecting marriage? Don't hold your breath. (more)
And it's laughable to hear the First Lady say that the issue should not be used for political gain. That is precisely, apparently, what her husband did for 10 months while running to be re-elected. (more) From his address from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on February 24, 2004 when we said on the air 'I guess the campaign for re-election has begun' (transcript) to his last campaign speech at Moody Coliseum on the SMU Campus the night before the election (transcript)...in speech after speech...the president called for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage.
Then in his first press conference after re-election, the president laid out his real domestic agenda (transcript)...talked about spending political capital on the things that he told the American people he would pursue. Nowhere in there was anything about marriage protection. And there hasn't been anything since.
To hear the First Lady say what she said on Fox News Sunday signals what many have feared: the president said during the campaign what he needed to say about protecting marriage for political gain and then forgot about it and forgot about us.