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Thursday, May 17, 2012

postheadericon Will Obama ditch Joe Biden? (Obama/McRaven 2012)

As Karen Finney has suggested here, Joe Biden’s accidental announcement on gay marriage might have been staged. This incident and the Obama follow-up announcement seemed almost dumb and dumber compared to the standard format of press relations and revelations. It could have been a tactical ploy: staging a diversion, only to head off in a completely new direction. Possibly they hoped to nail the same-sex marriage issue and leave it behind entirely by tacking in an entirely new direction a week or so later. Leaving gay marriage behind with Joe Biden. Such a move would be both tactically inspired and ethically insidious.

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