JEFF JACOBY on Obama's gay marriage evolution:

[I]t's hard to swallow the notion of Obama as a paragon of candor, genuinely conflicted on the question of same-sex marriage. The point is that he could have been -- and nothing would have changed. Obama may be a dissembler whose "evolution" was all for show, but millions of Americans really have wrestled with the question of redefining marriage. As those shifting opinion polls attest, many people who once opposed gay marriage now support it. And as the unbroken string of ballot-box victories for preserving the marriage status quo attests, many do not.

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