Obama's Announcement Re: Gay Marriage

[Gen]

Re: Obama's Announcement Re: Gay Marriage

6 a one half a dozen a the other.

like vegas seh, and most politicans know it,

yuh nah guh please everybody inna yuh party and your policies will cost/gain votes

and voters nah guh agree wid everything them party candidate do and seh.

if democrats nuh want vote knowing that what he said nah guh change a ting, them can tan a dem yard.

[Gen]

Re: President Obama's Gay Marriage Announcement



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vegas</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
yes he will but not this term! yuh want bet me? </div></div>

~~~ fling down $50,000 in loose change weh mi fine eena mi purse pan di table ~~~

him nawgo win. the tides have turned. he will be a one term president mi seh and it noh have nott'n fi du wid di gay/black/christian/mormon/jewish/heterosexual/transgendered/two-spirited vote mi seh.

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[missus_vegas]

Re: President Obama's Gay Marriage Announcement

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hope yuh right! But mi wi bet yuh ah Oxtail Dinner. </div></div>

mi no want no oxtail dinner mi want sinting from the ja.com store dat way mi sure mi can gettie.

BTW is wen is oonuh election day again?

[Gen]

Re: President Obama's Gay Marriage Announcement

Romney apologizes for high school 'teasing
CNN Producer Gabriella Schwarz

(CNN) - <span style="font-weight: bold">Mitt Romney apologized for any &quot;teasing or taunts&quot; he carried out in high school that others deemed offensive and possibly homophobic, following a Thursday news article that included first hand accounts from his time at an all-boys prep school.</span>

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said he did not specifically remember two incidents described in the Washington Post story, but said other student's sexual orientation was &quot;the furthest thing from our minds in the 1960s.&quot;

yah suh

[Gen]

Re: President Obama's Gay Marriage Announcement

Mitt Romney forced to apologize 'after he held down gay taunt classmate and chopped off his hair' during school 'attack'

By Daniel Bates

PUBLISHED: 11:10 EST, 10 May 2012 | UPDATED: 13:45 EST, 10 May 2012

<span style="font-weight: bold">Mitt Romney has been forced to apologize today for forcibly shaving the head of a high school classmate who was regularly taunted for being gay.
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The Republican presidential candidate grabbed tearful John Lauber and hacked away with a pair of scissors because he thought his bleached blond hair was ‘wrong’.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Mr Romney also supposedly mocked another student who was a closeted gay by shouting ‘Atta girl!’ when he tried to speak in class.</span>
Family politics: Mitt Romney (left) in 1962 with his mother Lenore and father George who became governor of Michigan

The damaging claims come a day after Barack Obama said he was in favour of gay marriage.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Mr Romney has made it clear he opposes it but issued an apology for fear of being seen as homophobic.</span>

He said: ‘Back in high school, you know, I did some dumb things. If anyone was hurt by that or offended by that, obviously I apologize. ‘But overall, high school years were a long time ago'.

Interviews with Mr Romney’s former classmates at the $54,000 a year Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, reveal he was fond of jokes that were mostly good-natured by sometimes had a hard edge.

After the shaving incident Mr Lauber ‘seemed to disappear’ from life in school and was later expelled for smoking and died in 2004 of liver cancer.
Torment: The Republican presidential hopeful was said to have taunted students who were known to be gay and those from poor backgrounds at the exclusive Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

<span style="font-weight: bold">The Republican presidential hopeful was said to have taunted students who were known to be gay and those from poor backgrounds at the exclusive Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan</span>

Decades after it happened he ran into one of Romney’s friends who helped hold him down and told him: ‘It was horrible. It’s something I have thought about a lot since then.’

The incident supposedly happened in the summer term in 1965 when Mr Lauber, who was a year below Mr Romney, came back from Spring Break with his hair dyed blond and styled so it was draped over one eye.

According to the Washington Post, Mr Romney would not let it go and told his friend Matthew Friedemann: ‘He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!’

A few days later Mr Romney assembled a posse which found Mr Lauber, tackled him to the floor and held him down whilst the future governor of Massachusetts snipped away.

When it was completed, the crowd cheered Romney as he walked out of the room.

The incident was recalled by five former Cranbrook pupils including Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor, who helped hold Mr Lauber down.

He said: ‘It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.’

Phillip Maxwell, who is now a lawyer, added: ‘It was a hack job. It was vicious.’

Mr Friedemann, a dentist, also felt bad for not stopping it happening and admitted Mr Lauber was ‘easy pickins’.

Romney’s time at Cranbrook is credited with shaping into the hard-working, driven man he is today.

It was also the time in his life when sports and socialising governed his life more than at any other time.

Friends recalled how he and his friends would be up all night larking around, the sound of his laughter filling the corridors at 2am.

In English class however things took a more sinister twist - Mr Romney had a habit of interrupting fellow pupil Gary Hummel, a closeted gay at the time, by shouting: ‘Atta girl!’

According to the Washington Post he also behaved in a ‘sour’ fashion towards scholarship student Lou Vierling when he found he he was from a poor area of Detroit.

Mr Romney’s wife Ann has claimed that contrary to his public image as a ‘tin man’, as one friend has claimed, he is actually a ‘wild and crazy man’.

And details about his pranks have come to light before, notably in the biography, ‘The Real Romney’, by Boston Globe investigative reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman

The problem with the latest revelations however is that they suggest a cruelty which voters might find hard to stomach.

Romney’s most famous such incident is also his most controversial - when he strapped his dog to the top of his car whilst on a 12-hour drive from Massachusetts to Canada in 1983.

Seamus the Irish Setter was put in a crate on top of the vehicle because there wasn’t room inside.

Among the claims in ‘The Real Romney’, is that Mr Romney once shouted: ‘Oh yeah!’ and gave an impromptu rendition of the Michael Jackson hit ‘Billie Jean’ at a meeting with other Mormons - whilst doing the Moonwalk.

While at Stanford University he dressed up as an anti-Vietnam protester to infiltrate what he thought was a plot to embarrass the college.

At Cranbrook he also once staged an ‘elaborate formal dinner’ in a busy corridor and another time impersonated a cop to scare two girls who were being driven around by two friends.

When Mr Romney flagged them down he discovered some beer in the trunk as they had agreed would happen - but left the women terrified they were about to get into trouble.

Mr Romney’s spokeswoman Andrea Saul said: ‘Anyone who knows Mitt Romney knows that he doesn’t have a mean-spirited bone in his body.’

Obama's dramatic change of heart on the issue of gay marriage yesterday sent shockwaves through the political world.

But while gay rights advocates applauded Obama's announcement on Wednesday, Republicans accused the commander-in-chief of pulling off a cynical political manoeuvre.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus accused Obama of placating to voters.

Priebus said in a statement: 'While President Obama has played politics on this issue, the Republican Party and our presumptive nominee Mitt Romney have been clear.'

Obama's announcement also opened up the first major battleground in this year's election campaign.

Romney himself did not swipe at Obama directly, but affirmed his own views on same-sex unions during an Oklahoma campaign stop, saying: 'I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz1uV6yB4tl

[Peasie]

Re: President Obama's Gay Marriage Announcement

Obama certainly made a bold move but also a calculated one. He is no fool.

And don't forget that Dick Chaney endorsed gay marriage in 2009.

Bring on the Presidential debates baby

[ILP]

Re: Obama's Announcement Re: Gay Marriage

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">he thinks obama will be elected for a second term because the illuminati controls the election.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I am still not clear about where you stand re: who will be elected. </div></div> </div></div>

<span style="font-weight: bold">and the illuminati are gay</span> </div></div>

richard you fool, enoh?

[ILP]

Re: President Obama's Gay Marriage Announcement

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CeaBee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-weight: bold">christian black vote on lock.</span> </div></div>

do they vote? i thought they only frequented churches where the preachers preach anti-gay sermons while lavishing gifts/trips/cars and hard tools on young men.

i don't think BO won the election via the christian black vote. </div></div>


lawd mi sarry.....nu strike mi down ....but....

[Xavier]

Is Palin attacking Malia and Sasha Obama?

Not sure how many of you hear about Bristol Palin's response on her blog to the announcement. Many are saying it is an attack. I disagree. Apart from the sarcasm on Dora the Explorer (who would probably get more done than the politicians), Obama brought his daughters into to the discussion when he mentioned they helped change his mind...

<span style="font-weight: bold">Hail to the Chiefs – Malia and Sasha Obama</span>
by:Bristol Palin
Source: Bristol Palin's blog

Is anyone really surprised by the fact that President Obama came out of the closet for gay marriage? What was most surprising is when he explained how his position (supposedly) “evolved,” by talking to his wife and daughters:


<span style="font-style: italic">“It’s interesting, some of this is also generational,” the president continued. “You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same-sex equality or, you know, sexual orientation, that they believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it. You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and, frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”</span>


Let’s pause for just one second. When Christian women run for high office, people inevitably bring up the question of submission. Once, Michele Bachmann, for example, was asked during a debate, “As president, would you be submissive to your husband?”

People automatically assume that a Christian female President isn’t capable of making decisions without her spouse’s stamp of approval. (I should add female Republican candidates –liberal women don’t get the same kind of questions.)

So are all those reporters who feared excessive family intervention in the White House all up in arms over the President’s announcement yesterday? Um. Not quite.

Liberals everywhere are applauding him for his bravery and his wisdom.

So let me get this straight – it’s a problem if my mom listened too much to my dad, but it’s a heroic act if the President made a massive change in a policy position that could affect the entire nation after consulting with his teenage daughters?

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview.

In this situation, it was the other way around. I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.

Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.

[St_Bess]

Re: Is Palin attacking Malia and Sasha Obama?


Bristol Palin is a half idiot who in their right sense would even listen to what she has to say? She no count just like her Modda - Contrary to popular belief the President is not an idiot - he did not have to make that statement because he already have the G/L/T votes. There is no way in hell that these folks would ever vote Republican and they certainly will not be voting for Romney.

[Gen]

Re: Is Palin attacking Malia and Sasha Obama?

sage coming from clam brain bristol.

she nuh watch glee but she never miss an episode of <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;16 and pregnant&quot; </span>