Better late than never

Sure President Obama would have been braver to express his support of gay marriage sooner, and certainly a stronger statement that marriage is a right could have been expressed. But it is not like he went out and announced awarded himself two Pulitzer Prize nominations. It is still a significant moment.

And it must have been a conflicted news day for FoxNews Viewers.

Which puts him a century ahead of Rupert, two ahead of Roger Ailes, and three ahead of Hannity, who's still miffed about the Emancipation Proclamation.

Speaking of the Emancipation Proclamation it was nice of the Log Cabin Republicans to cut and paste the response of Jefferson Davis nearly 150 years later.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]