Bravely Sitting on His Hands

As pundits, journalists, foreign officials and celebrities began to fall over themselves heaping praise on President Barack Obama's decision to come out in favor of gay marriage (and in the process bravely admitting to the American people that he has been lying to them about the issue for three years), they uniformly fail to note that he also said that states should be allowed to ban gay marriage, meaning he effectively made an announcement akin to endorsing strawberry ice cream (note how he said personal opinion, not policy).  Meanwhile, on a substantive issue that pretty much everyone can agree with (though I can't imagine it would have all that much true impact), the president continues to refuse to sign an executive order which would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identification.  But hey, he's heroic.  He'd pat himself on the back but his hands are firmly placed beneath him.