The first Gay President?

  Maybe I am old fashioned, but I always thought that the President is supposed represent all of us , the American President.  This goes with the liberal agenda that deals in group identity and group dynamics.  We conservatives are individualist, you noticed that the bill of rights are INDIVIDUAL rights granted by our creator and are a hedge against an oppressive government. Group rights granted by a government can also be taken away by imperial decree.   I am disturbed but am not surprised.   As far as the same sex marriage thingie goes..what 2 people do in their bedroom is their business, I don't want to see it, I don't fly that way.  This issue don't affect my wallet but the democraps will try to turn this into social issue, they can"t campaign on his record so they will try to polarize the issues with social stuff

Newsweek joins cover controversy by naming Obama ‘The First Gay President’ - Actually Obama is a switch hitter...

NEWSWEEK "outs" President Barack Obama.... 'Obama's earned every stripe in this haloed rainbow,' Newsweek’s editor-in-chief Tina Brown wrote on Twitter

Newsweek isn’t going to let Time win without a fight.

In the battle for most controversial cover of the week, Newsweek fired back at Time magazine’s now-infamous breastfeeding mom image by putting President Barack Obama under a rainbow halo with the tagline "The First Gay President."

"Obama's earned every stripe in this haloed rainbow,” Newsweek’s editor-in-chief Tina Brown wrote on Twitter.

Last week, Obama officially announced his support for same-sex marriage, becoming the first sitting president in U.S. history to do so.

"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," Obama told ABC News.

The cover story, written by openly gay Newsweek contributor Andrew Sullivan, has yet to be released in full, but the magazine posted an excerpt on why the writer believes the president's move to support same-sex marriage was not just a political ploy.

"When you step back a little and assess the record of Obama on gay rights, you see, in fact, that this was not an aberration. It was an inevitable culmination of three years of work," Sullivan writes.

Sullivan draws comparisons between Obama's biracial upbringing and the experience of gays who grow up in heterosexual families.

"He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family,” Sullivan writes.

President Obama's announcement to support same-sex marriage came after Vice President Biden unexpectedly stated his view that gay people should be able to legally marry.

"I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties," Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press" last week.

Newsweek's Obama issue comes days after Time magazine made headlines with a cover featuring 26-year-old, Jamie Lynn Grumet, breast-feeding her 3-year-old son.