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The President Kills GOP Groundhog Day

Over the past week conservative heads have been exploding all across America. You see, the Obama campaign has had the bad manners, along with the “liberal media,” of bringing up the anniversary of the raid on Abbottabad. The President had given the order for a team of brave Navy Seals to burst into a compound and take out the man who headed up the killing of 3,000 innocent people on 9/11 and many more at places around the world.

It was bad enough for the right that the President has emerged as the coolest kid in school, but now we are all forced to remember when Barack Obama said go on the raid that took out the Republican’s terror tool.

Of course, last Monday GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney had to be asked if he would have given the same order and of course he said he would, with a dash of a dis on former President Jimmy Carter for good measure. This is a President who few current voters remember except as the guy who goes around fixing up houses and brokering elections. We could use him in Waukesha County in June, by the way.

And of course in the meantime GOP extremists do what they do and started a lame swift-boat campaign against the President.

Now we can only speculate, but of course Mitt wouldn’t, for two reasons. For all his bold talk, Mitt Romney is one of the most risk adverse persons running for office in memory. Look at how he caved like a house of cards when the “family values” wing of the GOP caterwauled over his appointment of openly gay national security advisor Richard Grenell. This is one of many Romney’s profiles in caution, so don’t expect bold and risky from this guy if he gets elected.

Yes, I cannot come up with any deeds of daring-do performed by the current president, but Romney swings way in the opposite direction.

Romney’s life has been one giant safety net. After growing up in a life of total ease, Romney’s “mission trip” as a Mormon was more like an extended vacation in France. Bill Bain enticed Romney into coming onto his company with a promise that the venture would be totally risk free for him.

Going on to his signature project, the Salt Lake City Olympics, Mr. “No Bail outs for Detroit” took a record amount of federal prop-up money.

As for the recent primary, Romney has more than demonstrated the lack of courage to stand up for a single thing he was for prior to going through the conservative wringer. What makes anyone expect he’s up to the tough decisions?

That fateful night before the decision to launch the Bin Laden raid, not a single member of the National Security Team gave the mission more than a 50 percent chance of succeeding. The decision was the President’s and the President’s alone, and the blame would have been all his. It is highly doubtful that Risk-Adverse Romney would have given that order, even if we ignore the second point I’m going to make.

This reason is more instructive of his party.

There is no way a Republican president would have ever gone after Bin Laden. They certainly didn’t for the seven succeeding years of the Bush administration. Remember Bush saying he didn’t care where Bin Laden was? Of course he didn’t.

Bin Laden was the GOP equivalent of Punxsutawney Phil.

Remember every time there was an election following 9/11, or Bush’s poll numbers dipped or there was something they wanted to ram through Congress? Like the guys in the top hats in Pennsylvania, out came Bin Laden, usually in the form of some video that we’d find out later was weeks or months old. Yup. Six more weeks of terror.

It’s bad enough that Obama has been going around telling jokes at John Boehner’s expense, or warbling Al Green, or slow talking on Jimmy Fallon. The President had gone and had the GOP Terror Tool killed.

And now we have the Greek chorus of Republican surrogates on FOX “NEWS” and all over the blogs and on talk radio (Republicans don’t have lives you see) railing about how bringing up this achievement is soooo inappropriate (stifle laugh).

This, from a party that never failed to wave the bloody shirt of 9/11 high and long. The 2004 GOP National Convention was particularly ghoulish, with the 9/11 motif in the background and constant reminders of the attack and the need to cozy up with the Daddy party. Of course it was made even more ghoulish with Rudy Guiliani’s appearance aging into a strong resemblance to silent movie vampire Max Schreck.

None of this should be surprising, because the GOP has another tool, and that one is government. This tool is designed to enable upward income distribution and nothing more. And with the Bin Laden Terror Tool gone, President Obama has made the GOP’s ability to retain the other tool just that much harder. The poor dears will be left to now totally relying on dumpsters full of vulture billionaire cash in an attempt to fool or disgust voters.

And for those of you who are upset that the President’s campaign has the gall to bring up the raid, despite the fact that the GOP blasted 9/11 at us through a fire hose for seven years, blame Romney. Mitt has for months been using that phony line that the President has been going around “apologizing” for America, which of course is total nonsense.

So a lesson to Mitt. When someone owns a giant flyswatter such as the killing of Osama, a little Mormon temperance would be in order. Republican’s expect Democrats not to use their advantages, but that isn’t going to happen here. This is not John Kerry running this time.

Being a lawyer, Barack Obama knows malpractice when he sees it.

Bob McBride

6:59 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

This works good for you, Keith. Rather than plopping this down, paragraph by paragraph, over several comment sections, you've containerized your rant in one convenient location. A lot less disjointed and it allows you to build up a full head of steam, Jason P(whatsit) style. Too bad you didn't glom onto this earlier. People would probably be comparing him to you, instead of vice versa.

I like these caricatures of what Republicans and conservatives supposedly think, based on observing what goes on in the media. The trouble is that, by the time you get around to it, you're just parroting what's already been said elsewhere. Since it really doesn't require any thinking, it's perfect for the off-the-cuff, reactionary squawking that drives the infotainment industry.

You do deserve credit for staying closer to the roots of the "blog" than do some others around here. Weblogs (shortened to "blog" by the teenage girls who seemed to populate most of them, once an easy to use format was developed) were predominantly stream-of-conciousness rants like this one fueled by Red Bull and candy, rather than Alterra's finest - but the effect is pretty much the same. Props for doing it old skool.

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Keith Schmitz

7:05 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Why Mr. Butler, you turn my head.

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Luke

7:35 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

It could be argued that Romney would never have the guts to warn the Supreme Court that to overturn a bill on constitutional grounds would be "overreach" by an "unelected court" that makes decisions on the constitutionality of bills on constitutional grounds.

But of course, Romeny has little or no education in constitutional law. Perhaps Romeny could have consulted someone who has taught that subject before speaking about it - preferably someone who speaks "Austrian."

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Keith Schmitz

7:40 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Austrian? Then that would be Paul Ryan -- http://tinyurl.com/czn88lw.

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Luke

5:03 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

@Keith

So is American.

But we speak English and they speak German. They say so, and so do we.

Mike

7:52 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Ask any Navy Seal and they'll tell you Obama didn't get Bin Ladan, they did. Someone is taking a little too much credit here. They have been planning this mission for more years than Obama has been in the White House.

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Greg

12:45 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

So if it went bad, it would have been Bush's fault?

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Keith Schmitz

1:00 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I was going to refrain from commenting, but in your case Greg, didn't you read the damned thing. So far half the comments are a product of the usual emoting and failure to digest the copy as laid out. Don't make me have to come in here.

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Greg

1:07 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

OOPs sorry...Yea Obama, you da man.

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Steve ®

2:38 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

If it went bad the blame would have fell on Admiral McRaven. Obama had a responsibility-escape clause in the mission.

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Greg

3:52 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Shhhhhh, don't burst Keith's bubble.

J. B. Schmidt

7:52 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I think the GOP should let Obama have this victory. He deserves at least one before he is sent back to Chicago.

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red

6:57 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Hugo Chavez would take credit too.

Mike

7:53 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Also, I didn't know Keith was a war monger. I thought he saved that for the right?

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enicar333

9:45 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Osama was first a CIA agent, then declared dead multiple times.

The SEAL team disposed of the body - what body? What a bunch of lies from a lying FED controlled government.

Bread and Circuses, Bread and Circuses - meanwhile the Wstern World is set to collapse...

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Steve ®

11:59 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

So much for not spiking the football

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Randy1949

12:39 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

You mean like dressing up in a flight suit and having some pilot land you on the deck of an aircraft carrier so you can declare 'mission accomplished' with eight years left to go in the war?

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Steve ®

2:40 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

So you admit he is not only spiking the football but doing an elaborate end zone dance claiming all the credit when it took 10 other men to score the touchdown?

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red

7:07 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

------you mean like dressing up in a flight suit and having some pilot land you on the deck of an aircraft carrier so you can declare 'mission accomplished'

That is the specific moment you whacky libs went insane. He should't have done it just to preserve your mental health.

The Donny Show

12:20 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

How's the loan repayment process coming?

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Keith Schmitz

7:16 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Looks like that could qualify me for a position in the Walker administration, that is if I made anything off of it.

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Craig

9:18 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Keith admit it: You hate Mitt because he can earn more in one day than you could steal from the taxpayers after a decade of evil planning.

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Keith Schmitz

9:24 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Hey Craig. Tarzan is looking for you.

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Craig

9:31 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Sorry Keith I don't speak Liberal.
I have no idea what you mean.

Greg

12:42 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Since the first thing that Obama was going to do as president is close GITMO, he no option but to kill Bin Laden, because he has no place to hold him after capture.
It must be Groundhog Day, because GITMO is open again.

Actually, I can not think of a single civic minded person in the U.S. that would have not given the order. And any president, with real character, would agree to that.

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Randy1949

12:47 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Funny, I seem to recall a lot of political hissing and moaning about housing those prisoners here in the US. NIMBY!

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Greg

1:03 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Excuses are like A-holes.

Randy1949

12:44 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Oh so predictable from the Right side of the patch aisle:

1) It didn't happen at all. Osama's death was faked.
2) The President had nothing to do with it -- the Navy Seals killed Osama.
3) It was all due to President Bush's planning.
4) It's unseemly to make any mention of it at all. Meanwhile, back to telling us how President Obama has done nothing while in office.

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Greg

1:02 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The "Right side" did not write this blog, but no surprises from the Left that did.

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Craig

9:23 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

A real President with balls would have cut off aid to a nation who harbors someone like Bin Laden. The pakitupyourassistans looked the US in the eye and lied.
But they have a Muslim brother in the White House, so the checks keep coming.

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Keith Schmitz

1:02 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Has anyone introduced you to Google yet, or like many of your tribe do you have an inability to digest facts?

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Steve ®

2:45 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

lol

get your google machine. Type what has obama done
enjoy first result

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red

6:58 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Keith is really on a rant. Defending the manhood of the President.

M C

1:03 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

One more unhelpful article on our national political scene. Articles like this on either side of the aisle are much of the reason for our ever more divided political sphere. Light on facts, heavy on caricature and innuendo, and giving no effort to see the other side. My side is great; your side is pathetic. Now each side can scream at each other some more…

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WEACHATER

1:05 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Has anyone introduced you to Google yet, or like many of your tribe do you have an inability to digest facts?

And how does this answer the question. Typical from a bleeding liberal.

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WEACHATER

1:09 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

"digest facts", ok I'll bite,

What exactly are the facts in your tinfoil world?

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paul hruz

4:57 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Romney would have gave the order....and he also would have done his job and PASSED A BUDGET

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SkinnyDude

6:38 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I think any 10 year old would have gave the order to take out Bin Laden .Frankly, that was a NO BRAINER! I am just glad we tortured them criminals enough to find him . Let's give them credit for the Intel . As for the President , It took no personal courage for him to give this order . They even had the fall guy set up if it didn't work. He Certainly took a political risk of it failing of course . That is true. But the true credit for the mission goes to the Seals . No matter who the President . I think it's pretty clear that most Military troops and families will not vote for this Campaigner and Chief. He simply always looks uncomfortable in very miscast in that role .

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Jay

9:00 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Of course its a no Brainer for Republicans, their actions say they dont really care about our soldiers lives. Pretty easy to say no brainer when you dont have to raid the compound or you dont have to send your son to do it. When you have to send someone else potentially to their death or to being permanently injured its a no brainer for folks like you. When your a human being the decision becomes a lot more difficult.
True credit goes to everyone who was in on it. From the president(and previous president) all the way down. And if you remember and actually listen to what the president has said and not just Fox News, you would plainly see that every chance our president has had he thanks everybody and anybody who was involved, especially the guys on the ground!
Geez we can have ideological differences but why do we have to be boneheads like some of these posts? He's dead, the man who killed 3000 of our brothers and sisters is dead, and justice has been served. Why cant that be it?

Johnny Blade

6:59 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Do you people actually believe Osama was killed last year? You have to be ignorant ... Hmmm FBI says Osama did not plan 9/11 FACT ... Bhutto killed for claiming Osama has been dead for years ... Osama needs dialysis, how does he do this in the mountains? ....HOW DID Building 7 fall on 9/11, no plane hit it, if you think a fire brought this building down you are a complete imbecile .... fell at free fall speed ... Get out of the left right paradyne

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red

7:05 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Obama did what any commander-in-chief would have done.

Its ridiculous to throw rocks and say a Republican wouldn't have done that when 4 years ago Repubican's were war-mongerers, war-criminals, torturers.

Way to go Barach, for once you acted like a President of the United States.

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Keith Schmitz

7:10 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Then why didn't Bush do it rather than trotting out Bin Laden tapes every time is behind was in a jam? Ground Hog Day.

So far Willard has given us no evidence that he has any guts or moral core.

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Mike

8:28 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Keith, I do believe Al Jazeera made the Bin Laden tapes public. I would have thought you checked that out on Google. Oh yeah, you lefties think Bush controlled that newsmedia outlet.

Johnny Blade

7:14 pm on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

All Nobel Peace Prize winners make the call to assassinate people .. isn't that what you would Ghandi?? ... I mean this is freakin 1984 .. wake the "f" up

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Ima Hippee

6:59 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Good thing Obama cut his round of golf short in order to make it to the "war" room in time for his er, er, command.

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Luke

7:02 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Apparently Joe Biden doesn't think Obama has the courage to tell us what he really thinks about gay marriage.

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Jay

8:51 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

If Bush were still in office he would have landed on another Aircraft Carrier and called it "mission complete"

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Keith Schmitz

8:54 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Except he would have never did it, just like he never did it.

Mike

9:28 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Keith, your Willard reference sounds as lame as when the Rev. Al (Play the race card) Sharpton says it.

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Keith Schmitz

9:35 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

You going to be just as diligent about insulting remarks about the president on these blogs? Whine, whine, whine.

Mike

9:54 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Never insulted my president. Unlike the left, I can live with who was elected. I don't insult him, carry signs to demean him or protest his appearance.

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Johnny Blade

11:46 am on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Does anyone on here know how WTC Building 7 fell?? .. To believe the Government STORY is ridiculous .. and here the ignorant bloggers are debating which puppet is better and which MOB family (democrat/Republican) is better .. It is laugh out loud funny ... Here you have a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "WINNER" assassinating Osama and US citizens like al-awaqi .. I mean give me a break .. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE .. this is freakin Orwells 1984 ... al-awaqi was a guest at the whitehouse ... and you mindless lemmings write articles like this .. mindboggling

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Keith Schmitz

9:12 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Man, you are a Sears catalog of paranoid conspiracies.

Look, even though the whole WTC thing is for sure suspicious, but the very idea that those two massive screw ups could pull off something like that.

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Craig

9:29 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Blade you are paranoid, says Keith. He then goes on to say Bush wasn't smart enough to 'pull it off'.
Keith: you're a chump.

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Keith Schmitz

2:48 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012

If I would respect you, I'd be so damned hurt. But I'm not.

Bob McBride

1:16 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Not good enough. I'm still not voting for him.

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Keith Schmitz

9:14 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

BTW -- Barack Obama this afternoon just proved that he is the President for the 21st century. There is no political advantage in him coming out for gay marriage, no matter how much you imagine it.

Romney would no way have the guts or class to do something like this.

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Craig

10:20 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Only a President with no respect for religion would come out for gay marriage.
Civil unions are enough, you don't have to attack heterosexual marriage to be noticed.

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Randy1949

10:49 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Except, Craig, North Carolina also just outlawed legal protection for civil unions too. That's always been the argument -- why the need for same-sex 'marriage' when civil unions do almost the same thing?

North Carolina has just proved why majority rule should not hold sway over minority rights.

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Luke

11:40 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012

@Keith

<<<<BTW -- Barack Obama this afternoon just proved that he is the President for the 21st century. There is no political advantage in him coming out for gay marriage, no matter how much you imagine it.>>>>

Well, according to both the liberal and conservative press, it's because Biden told the press that Obama was in favor of it a few days earlier. Subsequently, Obama's spokesman said that Obama had not indicated that he had changed his mind from what he had said during the 2010 campaign.

So, contrary to being courageous, Obama was forced out into the open. The issue was already settled as far as the press was concerned, so Obama could have flown under the radar on the issue until after the election, when he could have claimed he had an epiphany that turned him the other way . However, after the Biden disclosure Obama had no alternative but to say that he consulted his wife and kids, and they turned him around.

Considering this is a thread about Obama's courage, I couldn't have asked for better news as evidence of the contrary.

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Steve ®

8:38 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012

So gays can get married as of today?

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Bob McBride

9:02 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012

Steve, as of yesterday if they do, they get an implied fist-bump from the President, thanks to the efforts of Malia, Sasha and Michelle. I think I heard Bo was humping his leg as well to get the point across, but I could be wrong about that. Regardless, it's almost too extraordinary to believe - is it not? He has fully evolved (Joe Biden pushed him out of the closet).

FWIW, I support gay marriage. I didn't need to evolve or talk to my family about it. All I had to do was apply logic and common sense to it and determine that it hurts no one. It's also about 3 steps from the bottom of a list of 20 or so issues that would be of importance to me as it relates to how I cast my vote in any election.

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Craig

9:37 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012

Randy: even without civil unions they can accomplish the same things through legal documentation. Get a will, Power of attorney, Health Care Power of Attorney, etc.
The President defiles the sanctity of marriage for butt blaster votes? I think he is a wolf in sheep's clothing with the desire to destroy religion, our economy, and family values.
I guess the next step is to make it acceptable to have sex with an animal?

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Steve ®

10:51 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012

Bob, so what you are saying is they can have their reception at the white house and sip on Budweiser?

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Randy1949

11:20 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012

@Craig -- So some people have to spend thousands of dollars in legal fees to get the same things as you and I got for our $20 marriage license?

However your choice of wording gives your ignorant prejudice away. Butt-blasters? Really? I don't think the sanctity of my marriage is defiled in any way by letting couples marry, whether they're of two difference races or the same sex.

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Bob McBride

8:09 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

Steve, I think that particular ceremony is reserved for sorting out minor, pointless disagreements between parties of differing racial backgrounds - within the range of press photographers.

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Steve ®

9:03 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

Oh okay, thanks.

wait..

What about two gays getting married BUT one is a white hispanic and the other black. The in laws do not get along much and sometimes they sneak around at night in hoodies to play pranks. Can this couple have a reception at the WH? Hits all angles, gays and race, invite the press to take pictures and Joe Biden can entertain the kids with his jokes. "Stand up Chuck"

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Bob McBride

10:24 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

Steve, I think that given that scenario, should a dust-up erupt at the post-nupt celebration, an emergency Rose Garden Beer Summit might be in order. And yes they should make sure that Joe Biden understands that a wheelchair isn't a mobile Stratolounger.

Alfred

9:02 am on Thursday, May 10, 2012

If gays can marry what about polygamists? polyandrists? Can Keith marry his sister now? Can Keith marry his putty cat now?

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Luke

7:04 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

Keith Schmitz

<<<<<BTW -- Barack Obama this afternoon just proved that he is the President for the 21st century. There is no political advantage in him coming out for gay marriage, no matter how much you imagine it.>>>>

"No political advantage," Keith? If you read the article below, you will see that Obama was for it before he was against it before he was for it. It appears that he changes his mind as the political winds would have it, starting in 1996.

Where's the courage, Keith?

http://m.npr.org/story/152417874?url=/2012/05/10/152417874/weekly-standard-obamas-evolution-is-insincere&ft=1&f=

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Keith Schmitz

7:55 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

Like I've said. The same people who think Obama did it for the votes are the same people who think gays are that way out of choice.

The politics is a wash, if not a possible loss in some swing states. Romney would never have that courage, as his prep school incident proves.

Johnny Blade

12:42 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012

gays are that way out of choice.... Your right there is NO free will, it is the electrical impluses in my head .. so do you believe murders are born murders??

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Randy1949

12:48 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012

@Johnny Blade -- The psychiatric community disagrees with you. The reputable psychiatric community at least. Sexual orientation is innate and is something we have little control over. The only control we have is to be celibate or not, which even some heterosexuals seem to have difficulty doing.

Why don't you try holding you tongue until you know what you're talking about.

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Keith Schmitz

2:49 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012

Johnny, excellent job of playing stupid.

Being gay is not a lifestyle choice. Hating them is.

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