For republicans to scapegoat people and brand them as perverts and molesters to agitate the bigots or impressionable, low-info voters who support them, which is exactly what they are doing.

I get being turned off by the POTUS weighing in but this is a very civil rights conscious WH and I also don't have an issue with that although of course many do...

I also do think Obama has reached the point where he's saying "f*** these people" and can only blame him so much. As a party from the Senate down to the state level They've behaved like awful children with no interest in helping to move the country forward since he was elected and I do think he's more than sick of it. Thats been the case for much of his second term and certainly the impression I've gotten from him on issues that touch my world.