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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Thu Jan 5, 2012, 02:52 PM Jan 2012

Gay Soldier Booed By GOP Gives A Level-Headed Response

All nine GOP candidates failed to defend this brave soldier during the debate. Rick Santorum later said that he didn’t hear the audience boo.

Obama responded in a speech at the Human Rights Campaign annual dinner: “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.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_5ggaCwJU-4
Source: MoveOn.org

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Gay Soldier Booed By GOP Gives A Level-Headed Response (Original Post) Playinghardball Jan 2012 OP

du rec. nt xchrom Jan 2012 #1

Wow! polmaven Jan 2012 #2

Hey, playinghardball Skinner Jan 2012 #3

xchrom

(108,903 posts)

1. du rec. nt

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Thu Jan 5, 2012, 02:56 PM

Jan 2012

polmaven

(9,463 posts)

2. Wow!

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 03:01 PM

Jan 2012

Powerful!

If his husband had died while he was deployed, he would likely not have been able to come home to bury him, because he is considered to be a "friend" only. .......Very powerful, indeed!!!!!!

Skinner

(63,645 posts)

3. Hey, playinghardball

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Thu Jan 5, 2012, 09:37 PM

Jan 2012

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