The news, though, seems to be that Hillary is repudiating her long (if tepidly) held support for the Defense of Marriage Act, which her husband signed, and which drew her criticism in New York.
Her unadvertised shift is a very big deal, and reflects, among other things, the rapidly shifting national terrain on the issue.
UPDATE: Clinton’s spokesman points me to the text of her actual questionnaire (.pdf), in which she distances herself from a central plank of DOMA—its bar on the federal recognition of same-sex marriages—but not from the portion which allows states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
So this is a central, but not total, repudiation of the act.
The key thing that you have to understand is that at the time Clinton expressed her support for the DOMA, the Bush Administration was privy to inside intelligence assessments on the subject that were unavailable to members of Congress. If Hillary knew then what she knows now, she never would have supported the DOMA.
UPDATE: Serr8d blogged the debate live.
Look! T-ball!
Thanks, Serr8d!
I always thought brevity was the soul of wit, but if Mike Gravel is the soul of brevity…?
I could’ve sworn that Gravel was sent out for coffee, at least once…
And didn’t I just hear a word or two from Arianna Huffington on CNN? Or did someone change to the Cartoon Network? Or to a rerun of All in the Family?
T Ball, huh?
Dan, this was your idea…
;D
Oh, that’s great, Serr8d! Send me the embed code, and I’ll post it!
Also, we could use a chart demonstrating Ambulance Chaser’s slice of the lawsuit settlement pecan pie, if someone’s up for that.
It’s….big.
Add this to the end of the line; right before the closing: width =600 height=392
I put it up here, tacked on to my ‘live blogging the debate’ post…
Thanks, Dan!
Thanks, Serr8d. They’d make fine Pez dispensers, too.
Hillary Backs Away from DOMA
I couldn’t entirely blame her if she were a bit lukewarm about the whole marriage thing.
I mean… look who she’s got82.