Dick Cheney Believes in Freedom for Everyone (Yes, Even Us.)

The above is a video of Dick Cheney, former Republican VP speaking at the National Press Club for the Gerald R. Ford Foundation journalism awards on Monday. When asked about recent same sex marriage rulings he came out in favor of same sex marriages (but said that he believed it should still be handled on a state level rather than a national one.)

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don’t support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. … But I don’t have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that.

Even the Repulican VP is publicly in favor. So what are we waiting for Obama?