More Troops to Iraq-Kabul In Anarchy&Bush Calls Press Conf Re Gay Marriage

[kpete]

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

1,500 more US troops on their way to Iraq, Kabul is in anarchy, so what does Bush do? Calls a press conference about gay marriage.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/05/1500-more-us-troops-on-their-way-to.html

Report: Bush Preparing New Push For Anti-Gay Amendment
by Paul Johnson, 365Gay.com Washington Bureau Chief

May 30, 2006 - 1:00 pm ET

(Washington) President Bush reportedly will hold a Rose Garden press conference on June 5 to press Congress to enact the so-called Federal Marriage Amendment that would ban same-sex marriage.

The conservative Weekly Standard reports that Bush will gather supporters of the amendment behind him as he makes his pitch.

"President Bush is once again placating extremists and pushing discrimination when he should be finding solutions for the real challenges facing Americans," Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese told 365Gay.com.

"It's despicable that he would use this opportunity and the spotlight of the Rose Garden not to unite the country, but to advocate discriminatory and divisive politics."
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/05/053006bush.htm

[babylonsister]

1. There's one of those wedge issues, like clockwork. I wonder what

Mary Cheney thinks about it. :eyes:

[grytpype]

2. Disgusting and typical.

Let's hope he gets some hard questions about Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Olney Blue]

3. This is a fu^king outrage.

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[slay]

12. Indeed

The Republican agenda is based on wars, greed, money, power, and hate. People who classify themselves as "conservative" have been lied to and mislead by lying Republican scum. The facts prove that there is nothing conservative about Republicans - at least the ones in power. For them to pick on a group of minorities, this time gays, is not surprising, but is is indeed an outrage. :mad:

[countingbluecars]

4. Nothing else is working,

so I guess he is playing to his shrinking base.

[hatrack]

8. And you remember how to say "base" in Arabic, don't you?

:evilgrin:

[adriennui]

5. he's an incompetent bastard

the world is in meltdown and he's worried about same sex marriages? am i missing something here?

[Mr_Spock]

10. Yeah, you forgot that moran was installed into the WH

This jackass could sit there and talk about baseball if he wanted to - who's going to stop him?

[rodeodance]

6. people are getting wise to this stupidity!----a press confer about this

issue should make everyone just laugh!

[Skittles]

7. I think you may be on to something, rodeodance

pandering to the racist, homophobic ignorant conservative base has always worked in the past; the problem is, it's looking now like they're a one-trick pony with no new ideas

[Mr_Spock]

9. Is he gonna do the "biting a babies head off & eating it" trick next??

This ass hole is a fucking useless piece of propaganda propulsion - IE - a giant ass-gas machine.

[slay]

11. If you don't believe in gay marriage - don't marry a gay person

It's that simple. But for the United State to disallow equal rights to citizens based on sexual orientation is just plain wrong. It's a shame that Republicans must pick on minorities like gays to advance their hateful agenda. It's not a surpise, as I equate Republicans with scum of the earth, but it is a shame. I support equal rights for gays 100%!

[bdamomma]

14. I support gays too, they are people too.

this is getting sickening leave the gays alone.

[ninkasi]

15. So do I...

All of us are entitled to equal rights. Gays and Lesbians cannot deny me the right to marry the person I want to, who is of the opposite sex, I do not have the right to determine who they can marry, either.

[bdamomma]

13. what a dumb fuck this guy is

[Warren Stupidity]

16. Gays and Mexicans and Burning Flags

This is all the theofascist right has to run on. These are not real issues and it is our duty, right here on DU, to keep the focus on the train wreck of a bad war, cornyism and corruption, and criminal incompetence that is the record of this regime.