Obama was “bulls—ting” the American public back in 2008 when he said during his campaign for president that he opposed same-sex marriage because of religious reasons, according to former White House advisor David Axelrod.
In his new memoir “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics,” Axelrod alleges that Obama said to him following an event where he voiced his opposition to gay marriage, “I’m just not very good at bullshitting,” as reports Time magazine.
Apparently, Obama supported same-sex marriage throughout his first campaign for president but was reluctant to say so for political reasons. He only began to change his tune on the issue after two years in the White House.
“Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred union,'” Axelrod explains in the book, which hits shelves Tuesday.
Axelrod also alleges that Obama “never felt comfortable with his compromise” on the issue.
“He routinely stumbled over the question when it came up in debates or interviews,” the former advisor writes.
This is only one of the many revelations about the Obama presidency contained in Axelrod’s book. There are also morsels about Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Obamacare and the president’s opinion of the iPhone.
