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Obama can be silence all he likes because he has already said what his stand was on this issue.  It don’t matter what he says now he said it big time back in 2004 and 2007.  Here is what Obama said: 

(ABC News) While running for the Senate in 2004, Obama called DOMA. “an abhorrent law” and accused those in Congress who voted for it of having only been interested in “perpetuating division and affirming a wedge issue,” according to a statement that he gave to the Windy City Times, a gay Chicago newspaper.

When he became a presidential candidate in 2007, Obama went on the record in a questionnaire for the Human Rights Campaign saying that he supports full repeal of DOMA.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, though, only supports repealing the portion of DOMA that blocks gays in state-recognized unions from receiving federal benefits. She would keep in place the part of DOMA that says a state does not have to recognize a same-sex marriage legally recognized in another state.

Part of the 1996 law, which was approved by former President Bill Clinton, stipulates that no state needs to recognize a marriage between people of the same sex even if it was legally recognized in another state.

You can read more about this at this link:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4866998&page=1

I was reading The Opinionator and ran into this.  So is Barack Obama considering John Edwards as his running mate.  My the Opinionator the talk is going around that he is and it must be getting serious as the steelworkers union has now endorsed Obama since John Edwards did.   Obama thinks that John Edwards will pull the white working class his way and yes maybe help in November against John McCain. 

Here’s the case for picking Edwards:

1. He’s already been tested on the national stage and not likely to cause a distracting scandal.
2. He appeals to the same working class white voters that back Clinton.
3. He favors Obama’s new brand of politics.
4. He could put North Carolina and possibly other Southern states in play.
5. Clinton would probably support him. With more than 1,700 delegates in Clinton’s pocket, Obama needs to at least get her tacit approval if he wants to have a unified party.

Ok now the question,  do you think John Edwards would be a good choice and would he help the ticket in November?  I’m sure open to debates on this!

Read more about this on this link:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/is-edwards-the-ticket/?ref=opinion

Do you get the picture now?

Lets looks back alittle ways to John Kerry-John Edward run for the White House where they both stumped over their own feet.  John Edwards endorse Barack Obama after he was sure of being on winning side of things?  Is this the same Edwards that could not carry his own State for John Kerry?  Really now is this the same Edwards that his own state did not want him any more?  Now I ask, whats the big deal,  Rosie O’Donnell also has endorsed Obama does that tell you something? 

(fox news) Speaking after Edwards in the packed Van Andel Arena, Obama gave one of his most animated addresses in days, much of it devoted to fighting poverty. In America, he said, “you should never be homeless, you should never be hungry.”  As president, he vowed to “lift up every American out of poverty.”

Obama later told reporters on his plane that Edwards can help draw working-class voters and others to his campaign.

Is Obama thinking about John Edwards as VP because he would be just about as far left as Obama.  He’s one of these big time lawyers that loves to sue hospitals and doctors.  Edwards did not help John Kerry at all and Kerry would have done better without him.