Senate Passes Historic 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal

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Then again, he loves ANYTHING upside-down!

Larry Y of SC 7:52AM December 19, 2010

...and then there's THIS! (....how maximumly embarrassing!)

Mel Gibbs of FL 7:50AM December 19, 2010

A decade from now, when John McCain dies, he'll be remembered as the homophobic bigot who was on the wrong side of history.
What should not be forgotten is this was not the only smudge on this career politician.
Finished 896th out of 905 in his class, flew down several planes each worth over millions of dollars, got captured because of his carelessness and divulged secrets under interrogation tactics that he now supports.
He owes this country millions of dollars for his rank incompetence, weakening the military, costing the lives of brave soldiers and fighting to keep it weak.
Pay your fair share, McCain!
When McCain dies, I hope that he is given an enema. Then he can be fitted in a matchbox and shipped certified post to be buried in Arlington national cemetery
"I HOPE THAT MY RESCUER IS NOT A HOMOSEXUAL, PLEASE GOD, ANYONE BUT NOT A HOMOSEXUAL" -- John McCain as he woke up each morning in the Viet Cong POW camp, praying.

Marconi of FL 4:59AM December 19, 2010

Below your comment is a court decision. Not to your liking ? Show court decision in your favor...
Had courts decided in your favor issue would have been settled long ago...

Bill Hedges of MO 1:35AM December 19, 2010

What is so funny about the whole deal is the repugnacan stupidity it reveals.most are too stupid to see how hypocritical it makes them look. They blather ad nauseum about Obama destroying the constitution, yet when it came time to defend it, they were nowhere to be found. Oh well, they're not called the repugnacans for nothing.

Chinook of AZ 1:05AM December 19, 2010

“Boy Scouts of America v Dale is analyzed on the "Right Not to Associate Page." The basis for the Court's decision that the Boys Scouts have a right to exclude gays was the First Amendment's implied recognition of the right of an expressive organization to exlude members who might undermine the group's goals or expressive purposes.”
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/gayrights.htm
Just below your comment is mine. A list of last 50 years of Republican support for civil rights. You look at my links you would find was Republicans who joined the slaves for their freedom. Many civil Rights laws passed with not a single Democrat vote for.

Bill Hedges of MO 12:49AM December 19, 2010

All I wil say is I was never asked in any poll how I felt.
I am an 28 year vet and still serving and it is a sad day
when now I have to think about a gay man watching
and looking in the community shower. To me it is no different from men and
women taking showers together.
You can not do it so why should real men and women
now be forced to take showers with men and
women who are gay???? Thanks to all our senators
I will now be retiring and I pray they offer early retirement for
the men and women who are not gay so we do not
have to deal with it ??

Rich of SC 12:02AM December 19, 2010

If the republicans aren't going to defend the constitution they should quit demagoging it every election. It makes them look stupid. For instance, you have heard all of the wing-nuts swearing Obama is waging war on the constitution. But today when they had a chance to stand up for the constitution, where were they? As usual they refused
to stand up. They didn't care about civil rights, they didn't care about women's
rights. Whyshould they change today? What's that saying about a leopard and it's spots?

ProgressCan'tBeStopped of CA 11:23PM December 18, 2010

"May 6, 1960
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
September 29, 1963
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
February 19, 1976
President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII
September 15, 1981
President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs
June 29, 1982
President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
August 10, 1988
President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR
November 21, 1991
President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation
August 20, 1996
Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination."
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Bill Hedges of MO 9:24PM December 18, 2010

"So the next time any Democrat claims they’ve been supportive of civil rights in America (and been so all along), ask them to explain their past. “We’ve grown” is not gonna cut it, considering they continue to lie about their past to this day.
And I’m tired of the recitation that Southern Democrats became racist Republicans and took those tendencies with them. Even today, it never takes long for a Democrat to play the race card purely for political advantage."
http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/
"The Dixiecrat Myth"
http://www.black-and-right.com/2010/03/19/the-dixiecrat-myth/

Bill Hedges of MO 9:19PM December 18, 2010