Martin O’Malley Seizes On Hillary Clinton Campaign’s Unforced Marriage Equality Error
On Wednesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign made news with a significant shift in their candidate’s position on marriage equality, calling it a “constitutional right” rather than a state-by-state issue. Before the day was out, Maryland Governor and possible Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley was out with a campaign-style video that clearly targeted Clinton, if not by name, then by issue (O’Malley is the guy on the left in that selfie shot):
“History celebrates profiles in courage, not profiles in convenience. The dignity of every person tells us that the right to marry is not a state right, it is a human right.”
Oh to-the snap, Governor O’Malley. That’s going to make your eventual cabinet meetings awk-ward.
It’s tough to see O’Malley, or any other Democrat, making much of a dent in Clinton at this early stage, but this episode does reveal an early red flag…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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frambley1 April 16th, 2015 at 20:33
(I can’t watch the video so I’m only going by what the test here is talking about)
I’m not really sure of the significance of the majority of the article and its review of the way the campaign handled its communication of the statements. I don’t really care about how the campaign deals with the press and it it upsets them. I case about the issues.
And I am not sure if it matters what her past stances were on the issues. I think what matters is the platform she is putting together. There are alot of people that used to be against gay marriage that now support it. I know some who have completely changed their stance on it.
It seems that she has also changed somewhat on her financial positions, and that is fine too. She will win or lose this election on the platform on which she is running, not on what it would have been in the past.