by Patrick Appel
Rick Hertzberg imagines the bl0wback:
Suppose Obama had come out for gay marriage a year ago. That would have made him the face of the issue. It would have saddled marriage equality with all the toxic Tea Party wrath that has slimed all over health care and cap-and-trade. “Obamarriage” would have become “Obamacare” with a Christianist twist. If Obama had “evolved” too quickly, public opinion on marriage equality might have stopped evolving at all. It might have gotten hopelessly mired in a Washington-centered, cable-news-supercharged ideological stalemate.
Nevertheless Hertzberg believes "Obama should have explicitly endorsed marriage equality by now."
The Dish 