heard from the president in that rick warren forum and what the duck dynasty star has said more recently. because a lot of people on the right are saying they re indistinguishable. i was listening very closely to the president. i didn t hear him compare a gay lifestyle to bestiality or promiscuity. and i didn t hear him saying that those negroes back in the jim crow day had a happy time. they were singing and dancing all the time. completely different things. he s right to this extent, america s views on gay america have shifted over the last few years. but there s no comparison to what barack obama said in the first campaign and what papa phil was saying to gq. i took a look at the magazine itself. it s the way he lumps homosexuals, drunks, terrorists.
have shifted over the last few years. but there s no comparison to what barack obama said in the first campaign and what papa phil was saying to gq. i took a look at the magazine itself. it s the way he lumps homosexuals, drunks, terrorists. if you re gay in this country, you re at the same level as al qaeda and those who killed thousands of innocent americans? right. i think that the problem with these types of remarks is that, yes, in 2008 president obama was against marriage equality. but as america has evolved and the president has evolved, most americans, younger americans in particular feel that people should be able to love whoever they want to. and tolerance does not mean silent acceptance of offensive views. it means you can say and think whatever you want, but you are not free from consequences. and we are able to speak up. those who are historically
0 get it by january 1st. this afternoon, however, a slight delay was announced by the white house. the new deadline will be tomorrow at midnight. the white house said the move was to accommodate high demand. on friday the president announced the number of people signing up for health care plans has dramatically ticked up this month. half a million people signed up on the federal exchange in the first three weeks of december alone. hundreds of thousands more signed up in state exchanges. and we found out today one of those people was the president himself. the white house announced over the weekend president obama enrolled in a health care plan through the washington, d.c. market place. the move is largely symbolic, because as president, his health care is provided by military doctors. this all comes as a new cnn poll out today shows support for the law is at an all time low with the public. and over the weekend republicans continued hammering away at the law as an unworkable, unfixable
0 half a million people signed up on the federal exchange in the first three weeks of december alone. hundreds of thousands more signed up in state exchanges. and we found out today one of those people was the president himself. the white house announced over the weekend president obama enrolled in a health care plan through the washington, d.c. market place. the move is largely symbolic, because as president, his health care is provided by military doctors. this all comes as a new cnn poll out today shows support for the law is at an all time low with the public. and over the weekend republicans continued hammering away at the law as an unworkable, unfixable mess. will that message sell during next year s midterm elections. john allen for politico and jonathan alter. jonathan, let me begin with you. some said at politico this is more or less an election for the president. if the deadline was an election, i want to know, did he win or did he lose? i guess i would disagree with the, y