Andrea Mitchell can't resist the Rock Hard Gay Agenda

remember what was before DADT

It used to be that people were asked and investigated and were not allowed to join up.  They had to say they were not homosexuals.  DADT was just like DOMA in that it was a way to get a foot in the door, part of a long term gay rights strategy.

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by: Locke @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 13:50:59 PM CDT

No one has forgotten

and no one is dumb enough to believe the trollis claim that it is part of a long term strategy.

Clinton promised to do away with discrimination, Nunn violently opposed it, and DADT is a "compromise" that allowed Clinton to claim that he did something, and yet today people are still investigated and discharged.

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by: tiponeill @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 14:31:53 PM CDT

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....and BURIED.

Without acknowedgement of their loves or status even if they want it.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 14:50:55 PM CDT

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Yeah,but my take on her comment

was that Mitchell was "reversing" the shove direction and in that way  poking fun at the absurd continual use of the phase by the antis against GLBT citizens i.e. it was the conservative bush administration doing the shoving down the throat and not GLBTs.

 I actually LKED that the first minus (actually the only minus) Mitchell listed was Nunn's anti gay policy history.  To me Mitchell put that reason that Nunn would NOT be acceptable as VP at the top of the list, and in fact as a list of one reason, that Nunn's anti gay history is enough to not make him acceptable as a candidate.  

He's not acceptable to me.  

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by: Karen in Kalifornia @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 13:51:56 PM CDT

This is silly

I doubt Andrea Mitchell meant this in the way you are taking this.  I'm just happy she is mentioning Nunn's history with DADT as a minus on the national show.  

Kudos to Andrea Mitchell.  

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by: lloydletta2 @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 14:23:38 PM CDT

#5,298?

#5,298? I find that a bit difficult to swallow.

Sorry, but the whole idea of Nunn as VP is a joke.

There is no situation so complex it can't get even worse

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by: ZoeB @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 19:34:40 PM CDT

I'm being facetious

I too was heartened that Mitchell's minus on Nunn was his anti-gay record.  I know she didn't mean it like I'm taking it.  I agree that it may have been a clever reversal of a stock rightie phrase.  I acknowledge that I may not have actually catalogued 5,298 instances where someone claims that somebody is trying to shove the rock hard gay agenda down someone else's throat.

Besides, nobody shoved anything down a young Bill Clinton's throat... I believe by the late 90's, Bill Clinton was doing the shoving...

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: RadicalRuss @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 19:55:51 PM CDT

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