Following President Obama’s statement on Supreme Court’s ruling Friday morning to legalize gay marriage in all 50 states, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer couldn’t help but marvel at how “years from now, historians will write about this week – amazing week here in the United States” as President Obama saw favorable rulings on ObamaCare and gay marriage in addition to Congress passing “his free trade authority legislation.”
As the President left the podium at the White House Rose Garden, Blitzer reminded viewers that Obama was speaking “[f]or the second day in a row” so he could “applaud a major historic United States Supreme Court decision.”
The Situation Room host then went on a brief summary of the week’s events to proclaim “what a week this has been for the President” [emphasis mine]:
[H]e started off the week saying he would be fearless in fighting for civil rights in the United States in the aftermath of that massacre at Charleston, South Carolina, church. He then got his free trade authority legislation passed by the United States Congress. Yesterday, the Obama Affordable Care Act was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court. Today, he gets what he wanted, the Supreme Court saying that same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states of the United States. He says this is a victory for America. Homosexuals, he says, will no longer be second class citizens in the United States. They will have the equal right like all Americans to go ahead and get married if they want to get married.
Turning CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger and CNN’s Inside Politics host John King, Blitzer exclaimed that “[i]t’s really – when you think about history and historians, years from now, historians will write about this week – amazing week here in the United States.”
Nodding in agreement, King affirmed that “[t]hey’ll write about the week in its entirety and as the President spoke about the speed with which this specific issue has moved.”
Moments later, Borger opined how “it's so strange when you think of one week in American political history for one president that major issues have been ratified or changed so, so quickly.”
The relevant portion of the transcript from CNN’s @ThisHour on June 26 can be found below.
CNN’s @This Hour with Berman and Bolduan
June 26, 2015
11:22 a.m. Eastern
WOLF BLITZER: For the second day in a row, the President of the United States going into the Rose Garden to applaud a major historic United States Supreme Court decision. What a week this has been for the President. A week – he started off the week saying he would be fearless in fighting for civil rights in the United States in the aftermath of that massacre at Charleston, South Carolina, church. He then got his free trade authority legislation passed by the United States Congress. Yesterday, the Obama Affordable Care Act was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court. Today, he gets what he wanted, the Supreme Court saying that same-sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states of the United States. He says this is a victory for America. Homosexuals, he says, will no longer be second class citizens in the United States. They will have the equal right like all Americans to go ahead and get married if they want to get married. Gloria Borger is with me, John King is with me. It’s really – when you think about history and historians, years from now, historians will write about this week – amazing week here in the United States.
JOHN KING: They’ll write about the week in its entirety and as the President spoke about the speed with which this specific issue has moved.
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11:24 a.m. Eastern
GLORIA BORGER: You know, it's so strange when you think of one week in American political history for one president that major issues have been ratified or changed so, so quickly. The fight for ObamaCare has been long, and that is the President's issue. His involvement in gay marriage has been very small, by the way, because, as John was just saying, he's kind of a late-comer to the supporting of gay marriage – 2012.
