Reply #78: Nobody held a gun to his head and made him sign DOMA.

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He should have vetoed it; if they were going to override the veto anyway, there was zero political loss for him, and a huge moral victory to be gained. But he didn't.

I'm stunned by the cognitive dissonance of Hillary supporters who scream that Obama is somehow anti-gay, but then rabidly defend the man who signed the single most anti-gay piece of legislation in the history of this country.

And the same is true for the other things; on NAFTA, especially, he didn't compromise. He actively campaigned for its passage. Your argument, I'm afraid, doesn't hold up to history.