The Great Pretender Finally Takes Off His Mask?

Perhaps he is just weary of the charade and figures that if he is going to go down, he is going to at least be true to himself and his fellow travelers.  The pretense is over.  The mask is off.  Our president now openly admits that he is in favor of same sex marriage.  But this has been his position all along.  He was only pretending to believe that marriage was something sacred between a man and a woman.

Now his wet finger is in the air and he wishes to take a "courageous" stand.  His views have "evolved."  I guess your views on what is sacred can "evolve" just like that.

The truth is that he never felt the way he claimed in 2008.  He only said that marriage was sacred between a man and a woman because that got him votes, especially from the African American community.  Perhaps he feels safe now with that demographic; perhaps he thinks that community will vote strongly for him no matter what.
But I suspect otherwise.  I suspect that African American Christians are now going to abandon him, as well they should.

The other possibility is that this is just another attempt by Obama to put a wedge issue at front and center to distract from his actual lack of accomplishment during the first four years.   Perhaps he is banking on their being enough support for same-sex marriage that he count on his attack dogs to use this wedge issue to bludgeon conservatives as "extreme radicals."   In this way, he puts the conservatives on the defense and hopes to control the narrative so that the story doesn't turn to his own failures as a president.

Even his one supposed accomplishment, the killing of Bin Laden, was only an accomplishment in a negative sort of way:  He managed to not get in the way of Bush protocols and policies on national security that he openly opposed as senator and 2008 presidential candidate, protocols and policies that helped the Navy SEALS do their job.  Victor Davis Hanson has an interesting article on this that shows how all of this ties into Obama's extreme narcissism.  Clinton's narcissism is also on Hanson's chopping block.