Immigrants and Gays
2010-08-13 - by
Federal judges have turned out to be President Obama’s worst nightmare; first a Clinton judge in Phoenix threw out Arizona’s immigration law and landed Obama in the middle of a political war over the next to last issue he wanted to fight over; then a judge in California landed him in an even worse fight – one over gay marriage.
How much trouble could this cause Obama?
Even Democrats (or, at least, a lot of Democrats) disagree with him over giving amnesty to illegal immigrants, and even California – which is running nose to nose with Massachusetts for the crown of most liberated and open-minded state – voted almost two to one against gay marriage.
President Obama spent a trillion dollars, the recession deepened, and he lost the support of Independents. In the Democratic primaries he ran to Hillary’s left as a peace candidate, then after the election you couldn’t slip a sheet of paper between his policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and George Bush’s – which has made the peace wing of his own party restless. Now, when he least needs bad news, he now has to fight battles on two issues that will send conservatives to the polls in droves.
Immigrants and Gays
2010-08-13/
Federal judges have turned out to be President Obama’s worst nightmare; first a Clinton judge in Phoenix threw out Arizona’s immigration law and landed Obama in the middle of a political war over the next to last issue he wanted to fight over; then a judge in California landed him in an even worse fight – one over gay marriage.
How much trouble could this cause Obama?
Even Democrats (or, at least, a lot of Democrats) disagree with him over giving amnesty to illegal immigrants, and even California – which is running nose to nose with Massachusetts for the crown of most liberated and open-minded state – voted almost two to one against gay marriage.
President Obama spent a trillion dollars, the recession deepened, and he lost the support of Independents. In the Democratic primaries he ran to Hillary’s left as a peace candidate, then after the election you couldn’t slip a sheet of paper between his policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and George Bush’s – which has made the peace wing of his own party restless. Now, when he least needs bad news, he now has to fight battles on two issues that will send conservatives to the polls in droves.