Obama’s Amendment One silence

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36. What you are ignoring is the arc of history and the context that creates...

William Jefferson Clinton was the FIRST national Democrat to so much as mention the glbt community as a part of this Party. So prior to him, there was zero, nothing, not a shred of support from the DNC or any of their national candidates.
This means that each new Democratic President now enters a discussion that simply was not going on in the Party prior to Clinton, or more to the point, prior to Reagan's pathetic refusal to so much as mention the AIDS crisis for many years, and the DNC waking up to the fact that there was organization, power and passion in our community ready to draw on for their own agenda's sake.
No Democratic President can now return to the pre-Clinton era. The metrics are entirely different than they were in the past. That's how progress and history work.