Obama says he’d decided to back gay marriage before Biden publicly endorsed that position
Posted May 10, 2012 7:29 am.
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he’d already decided to come out for gay marriage before Vice-President Joe Biden publicly endorsed it.
Obama tells ABC in an interview that he wasn’t worried about being upstaged by Biden on the volatile social issue.
At one point, Obama says, “Would I have preferred to have done this in my own way, in my own terms without, I think, there being a lot of notice to everybody? Sure.”
But Obama quickly adds, “All’s well that ends well.”
He tells ABC’s Robin Roberts that he “already made a decision to take this position” before Biden made his comments Sunday in response to a question in a nationally broadcast interview. Education Secretary Arne Duncan endorsed gay marriage on Monday.
Obama says in Wednesday’s interview — shown Thursday morning — he didn’t revise his position as part of a re-election campaign ploy.
“It would be hard to argue that somehow this is something that I’d be doing for political advantage because, frankly, the politics, it’s not clear how they’re going to cut.”
