Team Obama Caught Lying About Gay Marriage Decision

Team Obama has just been caught in a lie, and most people probably haven't even realized it, yet.


A story in today's DAILY BEAST by media watcher Howard Kurtz essentially claimed that Obama's hand was forced into making a statement on his change of opinion on gay marriage because Vice President Joe Biden's endorsement of gay marriage on Sunday.


Kurtz' story says the Biden remarks "knocked the White House off what was supposed to be its message this week—student loans and economic issues.


But, this story, being pushed by the Obama camp, is a lie.


And here's how we know that:


Antonio Villaraigosa, Chair of the National Democratic Convention just blew Obama's cover story, and probably doesn't even realize (yet) what he's done.

Appearing on tonight's (Thurs, May 10th) JOHN KING USA (CNN) Villaraigosa said he had known for about two weeks that BHO would make a statement, changing his stand on gay marriage.


 "I did know a couple of weeks ago that something would be said soon . . . that the President would be making a statement soon on the issue."  - Antonio Villaraigosa


There's no ambiguity there whatsoever.  Villaraigosa answered a direct question from John King and said clearly that he had known something was brewing for two weeks.


So, why does this matter?  Who cares? 


It matters because the Obama camp has absolutely USED the media (including Howard Kurtz, who I LOVE) to make it appear that the President has been "struggling" with the issue of gay marriage and that the only reason he went public was because of Biden's "ill-timed" remarks.


According to Kurtz' DAILY BEAST article, "The declaration was not supposed to come this week. Instead, the White House had planned to dramatically unveil the shift shortly before the Democratic convention. But Obama had been agitated by Vice President Joe Biden’s own endorsement of gay marriage on Sunday, which knocked the White House off what was supposed to be its message this week—student loans and economic issues."

Kurtz goes on to say, "The president expressed his frustration to West Wing officials—some of whom questioned whether Biden had wandered off script or was trying to foster a change in policy—but Obama didn’t take up the issue with his No. 2. Asked about Biden's role in prodding him, Obama acknowledged to ABC "that I would have preferred to do it in my own time, on my own terms."

EVEN as I type this, CNN's Erin Burnett is reporting that Biden is being "thrown under the bus" for preempting Obama with his own statement.  Clearly, that's not true if people such as Villaraigosa have known about a pending Obama change for as long two weeks.


American Truism #14.