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Obama: Commander in chief must back gay troops
CBS News / The Associated Press ^ | October 1, 2011

Posted on 10/02/2011 1:56:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

President Barack Obama sharply rebuked his Republican rivals Saturday, saying anyone who wants to be commander in chief must support the entire U.S. military, including gay service members.

A combative Obama criticized Republican presidential candidates for staying silent when the crowd at a recent debate booed a gay soldier who asked a question of the contenders via videotape.

"You want to be commander in chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient," Obama said during remarks at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay rights organization.

Referencing the boos at the Sept. 22 Republican debate, he said: "We don't believe in standing silent when that happens."

Obama touted his administration's efforts to repeal the military's ban on openly gay service members, as well as his orders to the Justice Department to stop enforcing a law defining marriage as between one man and one woman...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; obama
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To: central_va; little jeremiah; Evil Slayer
IBTZ!

Nice pic -- "Lightning Plays Over the Troll Farm". DU is deeply saddened.

221 posted on 10/02/2011 2:40:02 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: Bikkuri; Chode
Oooh, yours is good, too!

Did you see -- whose was it, Chode's? -- photo upthread of Barky's little grimace? @ post 120 .... God, it was so ..... gay!

All hail Chode! A zotly photo for a zotful thread -- God, I love the smell of ozone in the morning afternoon!

I'm just sorry that glib-talking, evil bag of pus oozed into the White House in the first place. We're going to need two cans of Lysol, not the one we got by with after Slick moved out, when one of our conservative champions begins disinfecting the White Hut.

And a bucket of bleach. All horizontal surfaces ..... no exceptions.

222 posted on 10/02/2011 2:53:24 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus


Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!!!
223 posted on 10/02/2011 3:04:38 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode
Technical quibble -- that's an orc, not a troll!

Oh, wait, though -- I guess orcs do eat troll.

Wonder if they eat 'Rat? And RiNO?

224 posted on 10/02/2011 3:13:28 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus (Concealed carry is a pro-life position.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Exactly, they come armed with their lying propaganda.


225 posted on 10/02/2011 3:24:02 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: Byzantine Basileus

So you are for gay marriage and open fags in the military and you call yourself conservative. What a joke. Can you say troll.


226 posted on 10/02/2011 8:22:36 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: ohioman

He go “Bye-Bye”!


227 posted on 10/02/2011 8:26:18 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lentulusgracchus
All anyone has to do is see the homosexuals doing what they do best to experience the levels of insanity. They are literally self-destructive in their pursuit of sexual gratification. All anyone has to do, is be where they are in large numbers and you get to see every disgusting bit first-hand.

Because they are deranged, there are no good endings: they can't find satisfaction, there are no descendents, no future. It's all about here and now.

I have no idea why Adm. Mullen and the service chiefs went along meekly with this change to the services. They have to know that this will be a disaster. Once the homosexual networks are up and running, they will control most everything. The saying "who do you have to b__w to get promoted?" will be pretty much true. My family has a long tradition of military service but I will strongly resist having my children continue the tradition while the homosexuals run unimpeded through our services.

228 posted on 10/03/2011 6:59:16 AM PDT by Chainmail
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To: Byzantine Basileus
I really don’t have much of a problem with gay marriage either. If it is between two consenting adults, then the state should not interfere with their private lives.

Go away troll. What is discussed here is not private nor only between two consenting adults. What we discuss is a government IMPOSING its morally devoid humanist religion upon the citizenry. We discuss a government religion that has as two of its tenets, homosexual sex and abortion.

229 posted on 10/03/2011 10:03:12 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama is a morally devoid homosexual sex promoter.

Obama is a spineless enemy of all that is good in America!

230 posted on 10/03/2011 10:06:00 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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