Well. So Barack Obama’s finally come out. Thank god for that.
Watching the man’s exaggerated nonchalance in the face of the gay marriage issue has been as sweetly awkward as watching a 28-year-old Harvard graduate pretend to his Jewish parents that handsome, buff Conrad is just a roommate and nothing more.
Like any slim, neat man with a Big Announcement to make, the US President prepared his ground carefully in advance.