It's quite obvious that the Clintons and Obama are far more liberal than their policies — far from being a "homophobe" who secretly opposes gay marriage, Obama

It's quite obvious that the Clintons and Obama are far more liberal than their policies — far from being a "homophobe" who secretly opposes gay marriage, Obama is almost certainly guilty merely of underestimating the rate of change of public opinion on gay rights. Clinton signed DoMA because he had to work with Gingrich's congress. He also instituted "don't ask don't tell" because that was as far as he could go at the time. I have a lot of sympathy for many of the views of the Greens and some of those of Libertarians, but big parties are, by their nature, "corrupted" by the reality of assembling a working majority of the electorate and then the elected and actually having to govern.