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Obama announces his support for same-sex marriage
ABC OTUS News ^ | May 9, 2012 | Rick Klein

Posted on 05/09/2012 11:43:02 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

President Obama today announced that he now supports

same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure

from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.

In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president

described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place,

based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian

service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters.

"I have to tell you that over the course of several

years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about

members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous

relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I

think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there

fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don't Ask Don't

Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at

a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for

me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get

married,” Obama told Roberts, in an interview to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning

America” Thursday. Excerpts of the interview will air tonight on ABC’s “World

News with Diane Sawyer.”

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

California voted against gay marriage.

I’m reading that he is surrendering NC to Flip Romoney.


161 posted on 05/09/2012 12:34:10 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Paladin2

Interesting picture. Says so much more.

I wonder what Cesar would say about someone who walks their dog like that.

“When you see the President of the United States coming out of Air Force One, you always see the dog in front. When you see the President going inside the White House, you see the dog going inside first. Bill Clinton couldn’t control his Labrador. Nancy Reagan had to exile her Bouvier to the Reagans’ California ranch. You can’t let a powerful breed take the lead. If you did that with a pit bull, there would be no Presidents to meet with.”

Not only is Obama’s dog in front, it’s totally out of control.


162 posted on 05/09/2012 12:34:21 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This is a counter strategy to the GOProud media support that just pushed the Romney nomination (Drudge, Hume and Coulter)to the finish line.

The Admin figured that the gay community was a little too excited about the republicrat nominee from "MA".

163 posted on 05/09/2012 12:34:30 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Louis F and the gang aren’t going to appreciate this...


164 posted on 05/09/2012 12:36:52 PM PDT by Shady (The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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To: Paladin2
Did he have a heart to heart with Larry Sinclair?

You're high! (By about a foot.)

165 posted on 05/09/2012 12:37:47 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Don't let Julia fool ya. Socialism doesn't work.)
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To: NKP_Vet

LOL I know who he is..like I said, Obama likes to play for both teams..who can blame him, being married to THAT


166 posted on 05/09/2012 12:38:09 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: tcrlaf
Did he think the queers WERE NOT going to vote for him?

Or was the largely-gay Mainstream media pressuring him??

I honestly think that Obama lives in a bubble where everone around him supports gay marriage and that he honestly believes that the vast majority of Americans want it and that poll results like the one in North Carolina yesterday are just a fluke caused by a minority of homophobic tea partiers (sort of how he has explained away the 2010 midterm elections). I think (I hope) he's in for a very rude surprise this November...

167 posted on 05/09/2012 12:38:49 PM PDT by apillar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Leftists are ecstatic this afternoon.

Isn’t tomorrow Unexpected Thursday?

Watch for NO BAD NEWS tomorrow morning, just a big bump in “The Man”’s alleged approval ratings.


168 posted on 05/09/2012 12:39:56 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Lou Budvis; All; everyone
signed the petition to demand the move. Everyone should. Pit the nutroots against North Carolina and put the DNC in the middle of it.

A Great Idea. What say Everyone?

169 posted on 05/09/2012 12:41:24 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: little jeremiah

Yep, (to paraphrase Rev. Wright) Zer0’s riding DIRTY!


170 posted on 05/09/2012 12:42:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

only thing that makes sense why he’d do this is that he’s losing enthusiasm with his base.


171 posted on 05/09/2012 12:43:20 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: MNDude

maybe we can help?


172 posted on 05/09/2012 12:44:40 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Please God, Protect and Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform with Victory. Amen.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Obama likes pitching for both teams

He more than likely catches for both teams

173 posted on 05/09/2012 12:45:00 PM PDT by eak3
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To: Sister_T

Matt Rhoades = Romney campaign mgr.


174 posted on 05/09/2012 12:45:00 PM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Oh Boy! has just cost himself the ability to criticize Romney for changing his position on any issue.

The guy's a frikkin genius, I tellya!

175 posted on 05/09/2012 12:45:46 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

ROFL!

Obama just managed to do what Romney never could have...

I will be voting for Romney for sure now!

Thanks Obama for making this decision a LOT easier!

(who would of thought that Obama would be dumb enough to run to the left for the general?)


176 posted on 05/09/2012 12:45:54 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I just sent an e-mail to this godless Marxist queer and told him that he is a disgrace to the office. I pray every day that God would execute judment on him and his evil co-conspiritors.


177 posted on 05/09/2012 12:46:15 PM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: hitchwolf

——I do not know what has occurred but a deep level of brainwashing has gone on here. I think this is something we are destined to lose.——

I’ve long promoted the following measure of cultural change.

When the sixty-something’s say, “well, that’s what they’re doing these days,” whatever it is that “they’re doing” has won political and popular acceptance.

This shift in attitude of the politically and culturally indifferent middle is brought about by the media/political/professoriate complex. Through legislative efforts and suffocatinging propaganda, the indifferent middle comes to the conclusion that the end result is inevitable and that opposition is futile. The switch isn’t consciously considered. The conclusion is arrived at sub-critically -—”it’s just the way it is.”

We are close to the tipping point regarding sodomy-”marriage.”


178 posted on 05/09/2012 12:46:30 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: eak3

Pitching AND catching..you can just look at him and see that he’s a flaming homo


179 posted on 05/09/2012 12:47:57 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Earthdweller
"The Admin figured that the gay community was a little too excited about the republicrat nominee from "MA"."

MA - What does MA stand for?

MA: Master of Arts
MA: Massachusetts
MA: Mature Audiences
MA: Mildly Amused

180 posted on 05/09/2012 12:48:05 PM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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