Posted on 05/20/2013 4:02:33 PM PDT by presidio9
On Sunday, President Obama gave a commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta. “Keep setting an example for what it means to be a man,” he told the graduates. “Be the best husband to your wife, or boyfriend to your partner, or father to your children that you can be.”
That’s what Obama said, according to the New York Times, USA Today, Politico, and dozens of other news organizations. But Obama never uttered those words. Here’s what he actually said: “Be the best husband to your wife, or your boyfriend, or your partner.”
That’s not a small difference in wording. It’s an enormous change in the meaning of the sentence. In fact, it changes the significance of the whole speech.
How did so many reporters get it wrong? In a way, they didn’t. They quoted the text of the speech as it was prepared for delivery. You can read the whole thing on the Web site of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. News organizations do this all the time. You send them the text of what you’re going to say, and they post articles after the speech, telling their readers that you said it.
But this time, the speech didn’t go according to script. Literally. Obama changed the “boyfriend” line from hetero boilerplate to explicitly gay-inclusive. He ad-libbed. And this was a heck of a time to do it. The speech was about what it means to be a man. The president of the United States, who until a year ago didn’t support same-sex marriage, has just put an official stamp of masculinity on male homosexuality.
It was also
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Why is that?
“AND it isn’t the first time this happened.”
Yes, and a lot of times, Hussein’s propagandists have to “whiten up” his speech for publication, and insert all those pesky “g”’s at the end of his participles.
BTTT
A third is that he misread the speech.
Doubtful.There has never been a Chief Executive in this nation's history with more experience reading the speeches he delivers.
Freudian slip?
Somebody had to say it. Why not you?
He is not called Bathhouse Barry for nothing.
Men don’t have boyfriends, fags do.
He could shoot people at the school and there wouldn’t be a reaction from the media or the black community.
When he was elected to his first term, Proposition shared the ballot with him in California and was decisively rejected by black voters.
I think Michelle sent Reggie packing.
Stamp of ‘masculinity’ on homosexuality?
Have these people ever actually seen a homosexual? There’s nothing masculine about them.
Having spent a decade living in Greenwich Village, I can assure you that just as there are very masculine and very feminine lesbians, there are many gay men who do not look the stereotypical part. Would you call John Travolta feminine looking (prior to all the plastic surgery that is)?
He also outed Michelle Obama as a racist when he said that she has a list of her own of his faults and failings. As we all know, you’ve got to be racist to find fault with Barack Hussein Obama, golden child.
It’s not about looks, it’s usually about actions. Sticking your d*ck in another man’s rear end is not masculine, I don’t care how many prison thugs do it.
Obama’s boyfriend/wife, “Michael” might get jealous.. http://www.ihatethemedia.com/dont-ask-dont-tell-obama-calls-the-first-lady-michael
Bit by bit.
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