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Newtown -- you are not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As these difficult days have unfolded, you’ve also inspired us with stories of strength and resolve and sacrifice. We know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school’s staff did not flinch, they did not hesitate. Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach, Vicki Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel Davino and Anne Marie Murphy -- they responded as we all hope we might respond in such terrifying circumstances -- with courage and with love, giving their lives to protect the children in their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know that there were other teachers who barricaded themselves inside classrooms, and kept steady through it all, and reassured their students by saying “wait for the good guys, they’re coming”; “show me your smile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we know that good guys came. The first responders who raced to the scene, helping to guide those in harm’s way to safety, and comfort those in need, holding at bay their own shock and trauma because they had a job to do, and others needed them more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there were the scenes of the schoolchildren, helping one another, holding each other, dutifully following instructions in the way that young children sometimes do; one child even trying to encourage a grown-up by saying, “I know karate. So it’s okay. I’ll lead the way out.” (Laughter.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a community, you’ve inspired us, Newtown. In the face of indescribable violence, in the face of unconscionable evil, you’ve looked out for each other, and you’ve cared for one another, and you’ve loved one another. This is how Newtown will be remembered. And with time, and God’s grace, that love will see you through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we, as a nation, we are left with some hard questions. Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around. With their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves -- our child -- is suddenly exposed to the world, to possible mishap or malice. And every parent knows there is nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm. And yet, we also know that with that child’s very first step, and each step after that, they are separating from us; that we won’t -- that we can’t always be there for them. They’ll suffer sickness and setbacks and broken hearts and disappointments. And we learn that our most important job is to give them what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient, ready to face the world without fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we know we can’t do this by ourselves. It comes as a shock at a certain point where you realize, no matter how much you love these kids, you can’t do it by yourself. That this job of keeping our children safe, and teaching them well, is something we can only do together, with the help of friends and neighbors, the help of a community, and the help of a nation. And in that way, we come to realize that we bear a responsibility for every child because we’re counting on everybody else to help look after ours; that we’re all parents; that they’re all our children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is our first task -- caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by that measure, can we truly say, as a nation, that we are meeting our obligations? Can we honestly say that we’re doing enough to keep our children -- all of them -- safe from harm? Can we claim, as a nation, that we’re all together there, letting them know that they are loved, and teaching them to love in return? 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Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts,\" President Barack Obama told those who gathered Sunday night in Newtown, Connecticut to remember the victims of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/14/connecticut-school-shooting-coverage/\">Friday's school shooting\u003c/a>. \"I can only hope it helps for you to know that you’re not alone in your grief; that our world too has been torn apart; that all across this land of ours, we have wept with you, we’ve pulled our children tight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can watch video of his remarks and read full text below. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/16/167404413/president-obama-joins-newtown-in-memorializing-a-schools-students-and-staff\">NPR's Two-Way Blog\u003c/a> has more coverage of the service. 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Newtown -- you are not alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As these difficult days have unfolded, you’ve also inspired us with stories of strength and resolve and sacrifice. We know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school’s staff did not flinch, they did not hesitate. Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach, Vicki Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel Davino and Anne Marie Murphy -- they responded as we all hope we might respond in such terrifying circumstances -- with courage and with love, giving their lives to protect the children in their care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know that there were other teachers who barricaded themselves inside classrooms, and kept steady through it all, and reassured their students by saying “wait for the good guys, they’re coming”; “show me your smile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we know that good guys came. The first responders who raced to the scene, helping to guide those in harm’s way to safety, and comfort those in need, holding at bay their own shock and trauma because they had a job to do, and others needed them more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there were the scenes of the schoolchildren, helping one another, holding each other, dutifully following instructions in the way that young children sometimes do; one child even trying to encourage a grown-up by saying, “I know karate. So it’s okay. I’ll lead the way out.” (Laughter.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a community, you’ve inspired us, Newtown. In the face of indescribable violence, in the face of unconscionable evil, you’ve looked out for each other, and you’ve cared for one another, and you’ve loved one another. This is how Newtown will be remembered. And with time, and God’s grace, that love will see you through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we, as a nation, we are left with some hard questions. Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around. With their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves -- our child -- is suddenly exposed to the world, to possible mishap or malice. And every parent knows there is nothing we will not do to shield our children from harm. And yet, we also know that with that child’s very first step, and each step after that, they are separating from us; that we won’t -- that we can’t always be there for them. They’ll suffer sickness and setbacks and broken hearts and disappointments. And we learn that our most important job is to give them what they need to become self-reliant and capable and resilient, ready to face the world without fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we know we can’t do this by ourselves. It comes as a shock at a certain point where you realize, no matter how much you love these kids, you can’t do it by yourself. 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"content": "\u003cp>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — President Barack Obama's shift to support gay marriage is energizing young Hispanic voters who have been working side-by-side with gay activists in their push for immigration reform. The alliance has been growing nationwide and helping dispel what many say is an outdated notion that Hispanics are less tolerant of gays than the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/obama2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/obama2-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obama2\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-65341\">\u003c/a>\"My members are telling me that we need to learn from the gay community,\" said Dee Dee Garcia Blase, founder of the Phoenix-based Somos Republicans. She is now head of the Tequila Party, which she formed last year with the goal of registering young Hispanics to vote for immigration-friendly candidates like Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to take a lesson from the (lesbian and gay) community with regard to being that loud, squeaky wheel that gets fixed,\" Blase said. \"We need to be more aggressive, and we realize it.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Democratic and Republican parties are focused heavily on winning the Hispanic vote, not just because it holds the key to battleground states but because Latinos make up the fastest-growing minority group. The government projects Hispanics will account for roughly 30 percent of the population by 2050, doubling in size and boosting their political power. 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Evangelical Latinos, who cite Biblical teaching for their stance against homosexuality, are twice as likely as those who are Catholic to vote Republican.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Conservative Hispanics see the president's endorsement of same-sex marriage as an opportunity to draw Latinos to the Republican Party.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But a poll released in April 2011 by the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Hispanic civil rights advocacy organization, and Social Science Research Solutions, a public opinion research firm, indicated that while 66 percent of those surveyed identified as Roman Catholic, 49 percent favored allowing same-sex marriage and that number climbed to 59 percent in favor of giving gay and lesbian couples the same legal rights as married couples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surprising 69 percent in the La Raza poll favored allowing gay or lesbian couples to marry in their church or religious institution and 52 percent did not view homosexuality as a sin, compared to 38 percent who did. Some 69 percent said good Christians should accept all people as God's creation and not cast judgment, while 60 percent viewed discrimination against gays and lesbians as a sin. Most of those surveyed, 71 percent, were under the age of 50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Republican George W. Bush won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote when he was re-elected in 2004, by 2008, 67 percent of the Hispanic vote had swung toward Obama. And that vote was pivotal to his success in states like Colorado, where exit polls show Republican Sen. John McCain would have won if only Caucasians had voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many young Hispanics, both immigrant and U.S.-born, the DREAM Act — which would offer students who entered the country illegally as children a pathway to citizenship — is a key issue. Obama supports the proposal, while Romney's hard line against the measure, which he has called a handout, has alienated many Hispanic voters. The Pew Hispanic Center found in a December 2011 survey that 91 percent support the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juan Rodriguez, who is active in the Florida Immigrant Coalition and an immigrant himself, said the gay rights and immigrant rights movements are \"very aligned and becoming moreso every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The co-president of Blase's Tequila Party, Shara Mora James is gay. And two leaders in the movement to pass the DREAM Act, have recently taken over two emerging gay rights groups, Freedom to Work and Get Equal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The immigrant rights movement is grounded on advocating with the most oppressed out of our community, and in many cases, that has been queer undocumented youth,\" said Rodriguez. \"We are figuring out more and more ways of supporting each other because we all grew up being told we needed to live in fear because of the communities we love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">One poll found that 69 percent of Roman Catholic Hispanics favored allowing gay or lesbian couples to marry in their church or religious institution and 52 percent did not view homosexuality as a sin.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hispanic leaders and political watchers say they don't expect Obama's announcement to have much impact on the Latino vote, which could be key to victory in battleground states like New Mexico, Florida, Nevada and Colorado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No, no, no, no, no. It's not going to affect my vote,\" said Sister \"Molly\" Maria Luisa Munoz, a Roman Catholic nun in Denver who works with immigrants and the gay and lesbian community. \"My mother straightened us out right away,\" she said. \"God made everybody. How we came out? That's God's creation. Nobody should judge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Barela's Coffee House in Albuquerque's predominantly Hispanic South Valley, manager Geri Lucero said when the talk turns to politics there, it's almost always about the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Economics is more important right now because people are struggling with their money,\" the 57-year-old said, noting that conversation last Thursday, the day after Obama's announcement, revolved around two recent pit bull maulings, not gay marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Obama's stance impact her vote? No, she replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the increased acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage among Hispanics, one of the most recent polls of registered voters on the issue, from Quinnipiac University in July 2011, shows only 37 percent of Hispanics said they would support a law in their state that would allow same-sex couples to get married, compared with 46 percent overall. But a Pew Research Center survey of Latinos in March 2011 showed 59 percent of Hispanics said homosexuality should be accepted by society, compared to 58 percent of the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Segura, director of Chicano studies at Stanford University, said that even though Hispanics hold more conservative views on family and social issues than the general population, \"it's not how Latinos vote. It's about jobs, the economy, education.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning after Obama's announcement discussion on a Spanish-language radio station popular with Cuban-Americans in Miami focused on the president's embrace of same-sex marriage, but callers seemed more interested in the likely political calculations that went into the decision than in slamming the president for violating their religious principles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delsa Bernardo, who co-owns Yiya's Gourmet Cuban Bakery and Café in Miami with her life partner, said Obama's shift has actually re-energized her support for the president. Bernardo said she backed Obama in 2008 but has since become disillusioned with him, mostly over the difficulty she's had in getting business loans from banks that received the bailouts backed by the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It might swing my vote more to him because he's more open on this,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some conservative Hispanics said they will use Obama's endorsement of gay marriage to try to woo more Latinos to the Republican Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 25 conservatives representing 10 southern Nevada churches met last Thursday at the Casa Don Juan restaurant in downtown Las Vegas. 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"content": "\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html\">\u003cstrong>Watch video of Obama declaring support for same-sex marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-michelle-feels-same-way-on-gay-marriage\">\u003cstrong>Video: The President on how his religion factored into his decision\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>From an \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html;_ylt=A2KJjamxvqpPxmgA_6bQtDMD\">interview with ABC News' Good Morning America\u003c/a>, President Obama comes out officially in support of same-sex marriage...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html\">\u003cstrong>Watch the video and read his full answer here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 p.m.\u003c/strong> Here's \u003ca href=\"http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-michelle-feels-same-way-on-gay-marriage\">\u003cstrong>another clip from the interview\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, posted by Talking Points Memo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transcript: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOST ROBIN ROBERTS\u003c/strong>: Did you discuss this with Mrs. Obama, the same-sex marriage issue? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PRESIDENT OBAMA\u003c/strong>: I did. 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President Obama’s words remind us that marriage and equality are universal values that unite us all. They remind us that we are all—as a People and a Nation—striving to form a more perfect Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Obama’s words today will be celebrated by generations to come,” said AFER Board President Chad Griffin. “For the millions of young gay and lesbian Americans across this nation, their President’s words provide genuine hope that they will be the first generation to grow up with the freedom to fully pursue the American dream. Marriage—the promise of love, companionship, and family—is basic to the pursuit of that dream. Our Constitution’s promise, the promise of liberty, is one that every generation must realize. 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A \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2406.pdf\">February Field Poll found 59 percent supportive\u003c/a> of allowing same-sex couples to marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, however, wrote yesterday that \u003ca href=\"http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/obamas-marriage-maneuvers/\">these numbers are soft\u003c/a>. Ironically, the column, posted at 11:35 p.m., attempts to explain why Obama hasn't come out in favor of same-sex marriage yet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The first reason is that while the increase in public support for same-sex marriage over the last two decades has been astonishingly swift, it has not been irreversible. Instead, sudden bursts of legal momentum – mostly driven by judicial rulings, from Massachusetts to Iowa – have often prompted temporary backlashes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Gallup’s polling, support for same-sex marriage rose from 35 percent to 42 percent between 1999 and 2004, but then dropped back to 37 percent; it rose to 46 percent just before Obama’s 2008 victory, but then dropped back to 40 percent a year later. Today’s 50 percent support likewise represents a slight drop-off from the high of 53 percent in the survey Gallup conducted last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pattern suggests that Americans grow more resistant to same-sex marriage the more they feel that it’s being imposed upon them by an unelected judicial elite, and grow more supportive the more it seems to be gaining ground organically. A president is not an unelected judge, but a public flip-flop on the issue by the nation’s chief executive might feel like yet another elite attempt to pre-empt a debate that appears to be moving toward a resolution, but hasn’t quite been settled yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second reason for the White House’s caution is that opinion polling has consistently understated opposition to same-sex marriage since the issue rose to national prominence. Voters who say they support it when Gallup and other pollsters come calling can behave very differently in the privacy of the voting booth. \u003ca href=\"http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/obamas-marriage-maneuvers/\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In March, KQED Public Radio's Forum program discussed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201204160900\">political pros and cons of Obama declaring his support for same-sex marriage\u003c/a>. 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So long as we’re using this old dinosaur of the Electoral College and we don’t have a popular vote, we have got to weigh the outcome, the potential outcomes, of elections a little bit differently because some states have greater impact than others. And in some of these particular swing states, we don’t have a majority support just yet…”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:45 p.m.\u003c/strong> The Log Cabin Republicans are not impressed. Posted on \u003ca href=\"http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/log-cabin-republicans-on-obama-offensive-callous?ref=fpb\">Talking Points Memo\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/amendment-one-north-carolina_n_1501308.html\">passage of Amendment One\u003c/a>, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said R. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html\">\u003cstrong>Watch video of Obama declaring support for same-sex marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-michelle-feels-same-way-on-gay-marriage\">\u003cstrong>Video: The President on how his religion factored into his decision\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>From an \u003ca href=\"http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html;_ylt=A2KJjamxvqpPxmgA_6bQtDMD\">interview with ABC News' Good Morning America\u003c/a>, President Obama comes out officially in support of same-sex marriage...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gma.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html\">\u003cstrong>Watch the video and read his full answer here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2 p.m.\u003c/strong> Here's \u003ca href=\"http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/obama-michelle-feels-same-way-on-gay-marriage\">\u003cstrong>another clip from the interview\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, posted by Talking Points Memo. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transcript: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOST ROBIN ROBERTS\u003c/strong>: Did you discuss this with Mrs. Obama, the same-sex marriage issue? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PRESIDENT OBAMA\u003c/strong>: I did. This is something we've talked about over the years. And she feels the same way that i do. And that is that in the end, the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat other people. We're both practicing Christians and obviously this position may be considered to put us at odds with the views of others, but when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it's also the Golden Rule: Treat others the way you want to be treated. And I think that's what we try to impart to our kids. And that's what motivates me as president, and I figure the more consistent I can be in being true to those precepts, the better I'll be as a dad and a husband and hopefully the better I'll be as president.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: Response from The American Foundation For Local Rights, which is sponsoring the legal challenge to Proposition 8, California's same-sex marriage ban...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Los Angeles, CA – Today, in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC News, President Barack Obama announced his support for marriage equality. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a proud day for all Americans,” said AFER lead co-counsel Theodore B. Olson. “The bedrock American principles of freedom and human dignity are central to the political and legal convictions of Republicans, Democrats, liberals, and conservatives alike. President Obama’s words remind us that marriage and equality are universal values that unite us all. They remind us that we are all—as a People and a Nation—striving to form a more perfect Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Obama’s words today will be celebrated by generations to come,” said AFER Board President Chad Griffin. “For the millions of young gay and lesbian Americans across this nation, their President’s words provide genuine hope that they will be the first generation to grow up with the freedom to fully pursue the American dream. Marriage—the promise of love, companionship, and family—is basic to the pursuit of that dream. Our Constitution’s promise, the promise of liberty, is one that every generation must realize. As President Obama recognized today, the fight to secure marriage equality is the defining element of our generation’s search for greater freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, Gallup released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gallup.com/poll/154529/Half-Americans-Support-Legal-Gay-Marriage.aspx\">poll that showed 50 percent of Americans believe same-sex marriage should be legal\u003c/a>, down from 53 percent last year but still a noticeable swing from as recently as 2010, when just 44 percent approved of legalization. Notably, the latest poll shows the coveted group of voters identifying themselves as independent support same-sex marriage 57 percent to 40 percent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the numbers are even more favorable for proponents. A \u003ca href=\"http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2406.pdf\">February Field Poll found 59 percent supportive\u003c/a> of allowing same-sex couples to marry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, however, wrote yesterday that \u003ca href=\"http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/obamas-marriage-maneuvers/\">these numbers are soft\u003c/a>. Ironically, the column, posted at 11:35 p.m., attempts to explain why Obama hasn't come out in favor of same-sex marriage yet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The first reason is that while the increase in public support for same-sex marriage over the last two decades has been astonishingly swift, it has not been irreversible. Instead, sudden bursts of legal momentum – mostly driven by judicial rulings, from Massachusetts to Iowa – have often prompted temporary backlashes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Gallup’s polling, support for same-sex marriage rose from 35 percent to 42 percent between 1999 and 2004, but then dropped back to 37 percent; it rose to 46 percent just before Obama’s 2008 victory, but then dropped back to 40 percent a year later. Today’s 50 percent support likewise represents a slight drop-off from the high of 53 percent in the survey Gallup conducted last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This pattern suggests that Americans grow more resistant to same-sex marriage the more they feel that it’s being imposed upon them by an unelected judicial elite, and grow more supportive the more it seems to be gaining ground organically. A president is not an unelected judge, but a public flip-flop on the issue by the nation’s chief executive might feel like yet another elite attempt to pre-empt a debate that appears to be moving toward a resolution, but hasn’t quite been settled yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second reason for the White House’s caution is that opinion polling has consistently understated opposition to same-sex marriage since the issue rose to national prominence. Voters who say they support it when Gallup and other pollsters come calling can behave very differently in the privacy of the voting booth. \u003ca href=\"http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/obamas-marriage-maneuvers/\">Full article\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In March, KQED Public Radio's Forum program discussed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201204160900\">political pros and cons of Obama declaring his support for same-sex marriage\u003c/a>. Here's one exchange between guests Evan Wolfson, founder and president of the same-sex marriage advocacy group Freedom to Marry, and Ed Espinoza, a Democratic political consultant:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EVAN WOLFSON, FREEDOM TO MARRY\u003c/strong>: A vast majority of Democrats support the freedom to marry, but so do a majority of Independents, so do a majority of Catholics, so do a younger voters across the spectrum, including even Republicans and conservatives. So the President, by getting in line with the majority of Americans and the vast majority of Democrats and Independents, will be really doing something that his supporters, the people who are reachable, the people who want to be with him, want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOST MICHAEL KRASNY\u003c/strong>: Do you agree Ed Espinoza that the majority are in support of same sex marriage and that the president, really, if he goes for this on the campaign platform will be speaking to the majority of Americans?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CONSULTANT ED ESPINOZA\u003c/strong>: I agree with the part that support for marriage equality is growing. I haven’t seen numbers recently to know if it’s a majority, though I will take Evan at his word… I can certainly believe that it is. As far as whether or not it’s good politics… there’s one hurdle here… and it’s that we don’t have national elections in this country. We have state-by-state elections. So long as we’re using this old dinosaur of the Electoral College and we don’t have a popular vote, we have got to weigh the outcome, the potential outcomes, of elections a little bit differently because some states have greater impact than others. And in some of these particular swing states, we don’t have a majority support just yet…”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:45 p.m.\u003c/strong> The Log Cabin Republicans are not impressed. Posted on \u003ca href=\"http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/log-cabin-republicans-on-obama-offensive-callous?ref=fpb\">Talking Points Memo\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/08/amendment-one-north-carolina_n_1501308.html\">passage of Amendment One\u003c/a>, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director. “Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on this issue, but LGBT Americans are right to be angry that this calculated announcement comes too late to be of any use to the people of North Carolina, or any of the other states that have addressed this issue on his watch. This administration has manipulated LGBT families for political gain as much as anybody, and after his campaign’s ridiculous contortions to deny support for marriage equality this week he does not deserve praise for an announcement that comes a day late and a dollar short.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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You vowed in 2008, when you were running for election, that you would not “use Justice Department resources to try and circumvent state laws about medical marijuana.” Yet we just ran a \u003ca href=\"http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-20120216\">story that shows your administration is launching more raids on medical pot than the Bush administration did\u003c/a>. What’s up with that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what’s up: What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it’s against federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can’t nullify congressional law. I can’t ask the Justice Department to say, “Ignore completely a federal law that’s on the books.” What I can say is, “Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage.” As a consequence, there haven’t been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only tension that’s come up – and this gets hyped up a lot – is a murky area where you have large-scale, commercial operations that may supply medical marijuana users, but in some cases may also be supplying recreational users. In that situation, we put the Justice Department in a very difficult place if we’re telling them, “This is supposed to be against the law, but we want you to turn the other way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not something we’re going to do. I do think it’s important and useful to have a broader debate about our drug laws. One of the things we’ve done over the past three years was to make a sensible change when it came to the disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. We’ve had a discussion about how to focus on treatment, taking a public-health approach to drugs and lessening the overwhelming emphasis on criminal laws as a tool to deal with this issue. I think that’s an appropriate debate that we should have.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If that reasoning sounds familiar to followers of this issue, it may be because it’s similar to that expressed in comments made by Melinda Haag, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\">announced with her colleagues last October\u003c/a> that they would be targeting medical marijuana dispensaries and growers, plus their landlords. The prosecutors have been true to their words; that’s exactly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/medical-marijuana/\">what’s happened\u003c/a> and is \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/novato/ci_20481413/feds-target-novato-pot-dispensaries-one-closes\">continuing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, KQED’s Michael Montgomery sat down with Haag, who for the first time \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/interview-w-us-attorney-haag-on-pot-operations-if-its-close-to-children-thats-a-line-were-going-to-draw/\">explained her rationale for the amped up enforcement\u003c/a>. Some of her language echoes Obama’s in the Rolling Stone inteview…or vice-versa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The reason that the four California U.S. Attorneys announced our efforts together is that we were all experiencing the same thing, which is that everyone was saying we were hearing and everyone was saying the U.S. attorneys are not going to take any actions with respect to marijuana in California because of the 2009 \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.usdoj.gov/blog/archives/192\">Ogden memo\u003c/a>. [\u003cem>Note: The 2009 memo written by Deputy Attorney General David Ogden that laid out enforcement guidelines for federal prosecutors in regard to medical marijuana\u003c/em>.] So it’s fair game. We can have grow operations, we can have dispensaries, we can do anything we want with respect to marijuana because the Department of Justice in 2009 in the Ogden memo said that the California U.S. attorneys will not take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was incorrect. And we felt that we needed to send a message that it wasn’t correct. I actually felt that it was more fair to send a message because, for example, I was hearing from Oakland that it was going to issue licenses and allow large-scale grow operations in warehouses. And what was described to me was that they were going to be quote “Walmart-sized.” And I was hearing that everyone believed that would be okay and that my office would not take any action. And I knew it isn’t okay, it is a violation of federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re talking about that scale grow-operation across the bay in Oakland it wouldn’t be something that I could ignore. 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Detractors, who disparagingly refer to the law as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/embracing-the-obamacare-label/2012/03/23/gIQAO5eLWS_blog.html\">Obamacare\u003c/a>,” are hoping that next week’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/19/the-supreme-courts-4-health-care-reform-questions/\">extraordinary three days of hearings on the legislation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court will serve as prelude to a judicial override that shrinks the entire enterprise down to a historical footnote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60370\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60370\" title=\"paulruffino\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libertarian Paul Ruffino, 55, has been looking for an insurance plan since leaving his previous job. Several insurance companies refuse to cover him because he has pre-existing conditions.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now you Bay Area folks, in the heart of the heart of Blue Territory — let’s face it, most of you are rooting for the legislation to prevail like you cheered on the Giants versus the Rangers in the World Series. Because the debate over the law has become something much more than an argument over a specific policy. Opposition to the act among Republican politicians is virtually mandatory, and its fate \u003cem>feels like\u003c/em>, at least, a proxy for the success or failure of the entire Obama presidency. Furthermore, opponents’ \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/public-options-death-panels-health-care-debate-evolved/story?id=15982445#.T20ZCo5GydM\">extreme interpretations\u003c/a> of the law’s provisions and their eventual effects are indicative of not just the gaping partisan divide, but an almost \u003cem>metaphysical\u003c/em> chasm between two distinct sets of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/health-reform-enters-2nd-year-amid-broad-changes-challenges-15404\">\u003cstrong>Effects of health care bill in Calif. so far\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (California Watch)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which all serves as our introduction to interviews that KQED’s Sarah Varney conducted when she traveled outside the Blue Bubble to Madera County, “a largely conservative and agricultural area where one in every three people lacks coverage,” as she \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">\u003cstrong>reports on our State of Health blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. “While many people say they want the Supreme Court to throw out the federal health law, I found that many there are struggling to reconcile their political views with the basic need for health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">Read the blog post\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">listen to The California Report segment here\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As web extra — since many of you may only hear conservatives explicating their opinions when your in-laws are over for Thanksgiving and someone mentions global warming and then it’s “Hey why don’t we all settle down and turn the football game on, it’s THANKSGIVING for God’s sake!” — we’re posting three extended if edited transcripts from Sarah’s conversations with the folks in Madera County, as they explain their feelings about the health care bill. All three live in \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=OCZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1245&bih=643&q=oakhurst+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x809427a27f5dbc67:0xd0683ed7bb7d8d81,Oakhurst,+CA&gl=us&ei=f_9sT-f6ApDZiQLGyNnGBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CFsQ8gEwAA\">Oakhurst\u003c/a>, a southern gateway to Yosemite north of Fresno; and all three are both uninsured \u003cem>and\u003c/em> opposed to the law to one degree or another. Here they are…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Ruffino, age 55\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been involved in the hospitality business for 35 years at a corporate level and have always had full insurance benefits, major medical, vision, dental, the Cadillac of all packages. This last year I left my job and it was the first time I left without having another one because I was trying to decide what I wanted to do in my old age. I went on COBRA and that ran out. Now here I am at a more independent job, less of a corporate environment, that doesn’t have those insurance benefits. So I am looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m uninsured! It’s the first time in my life and it’s probably when I need it the most. I ‘m looking at AFLAC, but its very expensive. I was an athlete in college and I’m riddled with pre-existing conditions. So I’m out and about finding policies that wont accept things that I have… in my ankles, knees and my hurt back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m an old-school libertarian. I get frustrated sometimes when I see government putting their fingers all over it and then I sort of wonder if they have to. I wonder if we can leave it up to individuals and companies and the doctors to sort it out. Because you start getting involved in profit motivation then you effect everybody’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I find in government is lack of accountability. In corporate America, lack of accountability will get you fired. And all I’ve ever seen now is passing the buck, regardless of who comes in. The Democrats, Republicans, there’s no delineation anymore. That’s why I’m on the Ron Paul bandwagon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a Democrat until Reagan, then Republican, then back and forth with being an independent. Now I’m libertarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On being uninsured and his feelings about the law\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not either/or for me. They hide these things. I started to do research on Obamacare and all these things and there’s so much other pork they put in there. I distrust government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’ I knew beforehand. I have to be responsible for my own decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would I like to be better? There’s a greedy part of me that says I would. I believe there are people and Americans who need health care a lot more than I do because ultimately the bottom line is I can afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My concern is for people who can’t afford it. And that’s where I have to ask: Does there come a time when government has to get involved and at what levels? But when you are distrustful of the system it makes it difficult. I ping pong on this all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes back down to accountability. Our parents used to be responsible for us. Now parents blame everybody else. I think a lot of it has to do with education. We spend a lot of time educating people about sex, abstinence. The problem is we don’t educate people about insurance. It’s never talked about until people are in their 30s, 40s. So I think there’s a little bit of a wake-up call, saying this needs to get talked about soon. Knowing insurance and knowing your responsiblities are as important as telling kids about safe sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have eight children – seven daughters and one son – and my children knew about insurance by the time they graduated from high school. The system we have is sufficient if we have the information. Absolutely. It works. It really does work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do think companies have to be held accountable. They shouldn’t be allowed to cherrypick. Banks don’t let it happen in the private sector. If a company buys mortgage papers, they can’t buy all A paper. They have to buy the B,C, D paper in order to maintain their licenses. You could say if you want to operate in this community as a licensed health insurance, you must have a certain spread in your portfolio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cost is kind of crazy. Is it irrationally crazy? No. To fix it, you have to get people to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t anticipate change. I don’t see it getting better…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joe Stern, age 66\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I own Joe Stern Water Conditioning. I only have two employees so the rates are pretty high. I offered it but they’ve elected not to take it. For myself, I’m on Medicare and I have a Medicare supplement through Kaiser. Before Medicare I had Kaiser, and I just paid for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I went on Medicare, I was paying $670 a month as a single person. And I consider that pretty high. And that was without dental or glasses. So I just paid my dental out of pocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought it was pretty brutal but I was still against Obamacare by far. Because I saw how they did it in the middle of the night. It was just not how you do a radical change like that. You do it slowly so you don’t make mistakes. You study it. But you don’t say we’re going to find out what’s in it after we pass it, like Nancy Pelosi said. That was unbelievable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m totally against the mandate. You can’t make someone buy anything. So I think that’s terrible. The only reason they’re doing it is cause they can’t pay for it any other way and it’s just a horrible bill in every way. There’s nothing good about it. It doesn’t even insure more people like they promised. And by the way, I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that the cost has doubled from what they predicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our Congress is not qualified to make a law like that. When have they ever done any big change that came out good economically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think about Medicare?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Laughs) Well, yes, but it looks like we’ve got trouble coming up…\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I’m glad on I’m Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid…\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I think we should always have a safety net for people, and I always thought we did. Why did we need this big cumbersome program that no one really likes except the most liberal people? Or people who just like Obama no matter what…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we have a safety net in the United States. When they were trying to get the health care bill passed, Obamacare, they said we’ve got 60 million uninsured. A lot of that may not be true. A lot of the uninsured don’t want insurance, like young people. They don’t think they need it. And a lot of people are qualified, for Medi-Cal for instance, and they just haven’t gone out and gotten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know of anyone that was left on the street to bleed to death. Unless they were some drunk. I don’t know anyone who was really left out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Is it important that everyone have health insurance? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. It’s important that everybody who wants it should get it competitively.\u003cbr>\nI think you get competition by… you don’t have the state lines when it comes to coverage, put it out to bid, use economies of scale to get it competitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But mandates? No. I’m a capitalist. I’m a free-market guy. I’m not for government control. Or anything government does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m glad I’m on Medicare, okay? I paid into it since I was a kid. And I’m glad I’m on it, it’s a good plan. Social security is a good plan, but where was that money? It wasn’t invested properly. Government that governs best governs the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. It’s only fair. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe a little bit. I am a compassionate person. At least I’m trying to be. I don’t want anyone suffering, and I love people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But still I just don’t think that works very well. It costs way too much. A lot of people just milk the system. If everything were free, then every time you go to a hospital, an aspirin would go up to $17. People would be going there all the time. People would be hanging out at the emergency room. That’s how I see it. Welfare Cadillac. That’s what I’m worried about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We need to really qualify the needy people who do get government assistance. They need to make sure they qualify… not all addicted to drugs, buying drugs, not been on welfare for generations, driving Cadillacs… then I’m all for it. But it wouldn’t be no 60 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try not to follow things too closely… I was guilty of watching Fox news and hanging on to every word for awhile. Nah, why should I just be miserable?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I don’t think it was good that Obamacare eliminates pre-existing conditions. If you’re unhealthy, you should pay a little more. Otherwise the healthy people are paying for the unhealthy and that’s more like the socialistic thing which I’m not really in favor of.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>ObamaCare is absolutely horrible, horrible, horrible. It should be struck down immediately and I hope the Supreme Court does it. It’s just terrible. The way they did it, in the middle of the night, promised it would be on CSPAN, he lied… Reid, Pelosi, pathetic… Romney has a good chance of beating Obama But as a Republican in California, I don’t get a say in the presidential election. Around campaign time, I write letters…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do you know many people who are uninsured? My daughter is on Medi-Cal; she’s getting ready to gradate; we didn’t have to pass ObamaCare for her…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mary Westover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a self employed artist-businesswoman… I make purses and luggage and I sell them at street fairs and art and wine festivals. I’ve been divorced for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was married I had insurance through my husband. Since we got divorced, I was self employed, I just couldn’t afford it. I couldn’t afford the premiums. I was flying by the seat of my pants every inch of the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve only been the doctor or hospital on an emergency basis so I just have to take care of myself. I haven’t been getting regular pap smears, mammograms. I won’t qualify for Medicare for awhile…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I registered as a Republican, but I’m really going to vote the candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can’t make people who don’t have money buy health insurance, because they can’t afford it. It will just break them. It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What about the subsidies that people will get to help people buy it?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really? No, never heard of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If people knew more, would that shift their position on the law? \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s really daunting. For my job, I make money three-quarters of the year and when I don’t do shows, I have no income. People who have families, I don’t know how they could fit one more thing in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about applying for Medi-Cal, but I have a ROTH IRA, and I think you have to exhaust that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving toward a government subsidy is not a bad idea; it’s worked in other countries, but I don’t know if it’s going to work here because our country is too big and we’re in debt. I don’t know what the answer is. I’m just hanging on by the seat of my pants and hoping I stay healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What would you like the Supreme Court to do?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, it sounds like a good idea that they uphold it. I’m sure that if the Supreme Court sees that its going to work and it can be implemented, I think that’s probably the right thing to do. And it’s not going to take place immediately. I don’t know if it will ever impact me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To me, insurance right now is just too daunting. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today marks the second anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Not everyone is throwing a party. Detractors, who disparagingly refer to the law as “\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/embracing-the-obamacare-label/2012/03/23/gIQAO5eLWS_blog.html\">Obamacare\u003c/a>,” are hoping that next week’s \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/19/the-supreme-courts-4-health-care-reform-questions/\">extraordinary three days of hearings on the legislation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Supreme Court will serve as prelude to a judicial override that shrinks the entire enterprise down to a historical footnote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60370\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60370\" title=\"paulruffino\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/paulruffino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Libertarian Paul Ruffino, 55, has been looking for an insurance plan since leaving his previous job. Several insurance companies refuse to cover him because he has pre-existing conditions.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now you Bay Area folks, in the heart of the heart of Blue Territory — let’s face it, most of you are rooting for the legislation to prevail like you cheered on the Giants versus the Rangers in the World Series. Because the debate over the law has become something much more than an argument over a specific policy. Opposition to the act among Republican politicians is virtually mandatory, and its fate \u003cem>feels like\u003c/em>, at least, a proxy for the success or failure of the entire Obama presidency. Furthermore, opponents’ \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/public-options-death-panels-health-care-debate-evolved/story?id=15982445#.T20ZCo5GydM\">extreme interpretations\u003c/a> of the law’s provisions and their eventual effects are indicative of not just the gaping partisan divide, but an almost \u003cem>metaphysical\u003c/em> chasm between two distinct sets of Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/health-reform-enters-2nd-year-amid-broad-changes-challenges-15404\">\u003cstrong>Effects of health care bill in Calif. so far\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (California Watch)\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Which all serves as our introduction to interviews that KQED’s Sarah Varney conducted when she traveled outside the Blue Bubble to Madera County, “a largely conservative and agricultural area where one in every three people lacks coverage,” as she \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">\u003cstrong>reports on our State of Health blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. “While many people say they want the Supreme Court to throw out the federal health law, I found that many there are struggling to reconcile their political views with the basic need for health insurance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">Read the blog post\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/03/23/uninsured-and-still-against-the-health-law/\">listen to The California Report segment here\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As web extra — since many of you may only hear conservatives explicating their opinions when your in-laws are over for Thanksgiving and someone mentions global warming and then it’s “Hey why don’t we all settle down and turn the football game on, it’s THANKSGIVING for God’s sake!” — we’re posting three extended if edited transcripts from Sarah’s conversations with the folks in Madera County, as they explain their feelings about the health care bill. All three live in \u003ca href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=OCZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1245&bih=643&q=oakhurst+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x809427a27f5dbc67:0xd0683ed7bb7d8d81,Oakhurst,+CA&gl=us&ei=f_9sT-f6ApDZiQLGyNnGBQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CFsQ8gEwAA\">Oakhurst\u003c/a>, a southern gateway to Yosemite north of Fresno; and all three are both uninsured \u003cem>and\u003c/em> opposed to the law to one degree or another. Here they are…\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Paul Ruffino, age 55\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been involved in the hospitality business for 35 years at a corporate level and have always had full insurance benefits, major medical, vision, dental, the Cadillac of all packages. This last year I left my job and it was the first time I left without having another one because I was trying to decide what I wanted to do in my old age. I went on COBRA and that ran out. Now here I am at a more independent job, less of a corporate environment, that doesn’t have those insurance benefits. So I am looking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m uninsured! It’s the first time in my life and it’s probably when I need it the most. I ‘m looking at AFLAC, but its very expensive. I was an athlete in college and I’m riddled with pre-existing conditions. So I’m out and about finding policies that wont accept things that I have… in my ankles, knees and my hurt back.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Do I make the government responsible for my choices? I didn’t leave my world and then turn around and say ‘oh my god this is happening to me.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I’m an old-school libertarian. I get frustrated sometimes when I see government putting their fingers all over it and then I sort of wonder if they have to. I wonder if we can leave it up to individuals and companies and the doctors to sort it out. Because you start getting involved in profit motivation then you effect everybody’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I find in government is lack of accountability. In corporate America, lack of accountability will get you fired. And all I’ve ever seen now is passing the buck, regardless of who comes in. The Democrats, Republicans, there’s no delineation anymore. That’s why I’m on the Ron Paul bandwagon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was a Democrat until Reagan, then Republican, then back and forth with being an independent. Now I’m libertarian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On being uninsured and his feelings about the law\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not either/or for me. They hide these things. I started to do research on Obamacare and all these things and there’s so much other pork they put in there. I distrust government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do I make the government responsible for my choices? 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