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Want to have some fun? If any Lefty should try to "smoke you out" by asking
you what your position is on gay marriage, try telling them you hold the
same position that Hillary Clinton and President Barrack Obama held prior to
2012. See what they say to that (and if they even know what those positions
were).
In any event would it appear that the Lefties in the Press may be growing
weary of Hillary, since they are starting to ask her very pointed questions
once again, rather than the soft-ball they usually throw her, much like they
did for the first time in 2008 after they decided to throw their support
behind Barrack Obama's candidacy.
"Hillary Clinton had a contentious exchange Thursday over the timing of her
public support for gay marriage, accusing a reporter of "playing with my
words" and ascribing political motives to her announcement. "
"I think you are trying to say that, you know, I used to be opposed, and now
I'm in favor, and I did it for political reasons," she told NPR reporter
Terry Gross during an interview. "And that's just flat wrong."
The former secretary of state did not publicly support gay marriage until
after she left the Obama administration in March 2013 - after Vice President
Joe Biden and, subsequently, President Barack Obama stated their backing for
it.
In the interview, which was recorded and disseminated by Republican group
America Rising, Gross asked Clinton several times whether she had privately
supported gay marriage before her 2013 announcement or whether her opinion
on the subject changed at that time.
"I think you are being very persistent, but you are playing with my words
and playing with what is such an important issue," Clinton responded.
The likely 2016 presidential candidate was audibly annoyed at the line of
questioning, adding: "Let me just state what I feel like you are implying
and repudiate it: I have a strong record, I have a great commitment to this
issue, and I am proud of what I've done and the progress we're making."
"I did not grow up even imagining gay marriage, and I don't think you did
either," she said of her eventual embrace of the policy.
When Gross noted that activists were vocal about the issue when Clinton's
husband, then-president Bill Clinton, signed the Defense of Marriage Act
into law, Clinton shot back.
"To be fair Terry, not that many," she replied.
According to data from the Pew Research Center, 27 percent of the public
said they supported gay marriage in 1996, the earliest date for which the
data is available. In 2014, that share is up to 54 percent.
By Epictetus
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