Obama record on LGBT rights campaign video

[Guest EXPAT]

President Obama is out with a new video detailing his record on GLBT issues, and it's narrated by Jane Lynch. I know many people are frustrated with the pace of change, but we really have moved the bubble a lot in just over three years.

[AdamSmith]

Agree. The comparison goes a little far, but not altogether amiss to recall what Frederick Douglass said posthumously of Lincoln:

"...Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined."

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=39

[JKane]

Wow, that's a great point AdamSmith! Never thought of it quite like that.