NYT editorial:
Gay Marriage: Where’s Mr. Obama?
On Thursday night, when same-sex marriage in New York State was teetering on a razor’s edge, President Obama had a perfect opportunity to show the results of his supposed evolution on gay marriage.
Unfortunately, he did not take it, keeping his own views in the shadows. The next night the Republican-led New York State Senate, of all places, proved itself more forward-thinking than the president on one of the last great civil-rights debates in this nation’s history.
There’s a lot more and you should read it.
You might think that Obama’s failure to lead on this issue would be inarguable, but then you don’t know John Cole:
No. No. And A Thousand Times, No.
[…]Cuomo and the NY politicians were very carefully advancing the issue in a delicate manner, allowing this to be a vote of conscience for the Senators, free from the usual heightened levels of partisan rancor. Things were proceeding nicely, everything pointed to a win for gay rights the next night, and Obama didn’t need to do anything to “lead.” In fact, if Obama had gone up there and delivered what these clowns wanted, and gave a rousing speech claiming he had changed his mind, it would have done nothing but blown up the current negotiations. How many Republicans who were supporting the vote would have backed away, simply because Republicans could not give Obama a “win.” The vote of conscience would be gone, and it would become a partisan battle and the vote would probably have failed.
Koolaid is a helluva drug.

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Nate Silver:
There seems to be a lot of pro-Cuomo press lately…
Check out Ian Welsh
He’s not a fan, I see….
I love seeing Obama eviscerated like this, but I think there’s a mistake there, since he’s pretty much cooperated with Republicans to the extent that Woodstock cooperated with Snoopy.
Blago found guilty on 17 out of 20 counts.
BO still clean as a whistle.
Bleh. Fitzmas is a letdown.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-blagojevich-jurors-going-into-their-10th-day-20110627,0,620170.story
BREAKING… Jury convicts ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich of trying to sell Obama’s old Senate seat http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jurors-tell-judge-they-have-agreed-on-18-of-20-counts-against-ousted-illinois-gov-blagojevich/2011/06/27/AGq8lXnH_story.html
BTD in the comments at Buffoon Juice:
I agree, but he didn’t have to be.