now why are freepers freakin out about this?

[HipChick]

seriously, how in the $%#^& is this cheapening the WH or making it tacky? It's for a good cause -

[Ruby the Liberal]

1. I think its cool.

It is breast cancer awareness month, is it not?

:shrug:

[get the red out]

2. Breast Cancer

Is a women's health issue (to them), so completely unimportant.

[DrDan]

3. they are? Who and where?

[gateley]

4. That's really cool! nt

[librechik]

5. dang it all the damn Code Pink feminazis done put up a big bow on our symbol of male domination!!1!

I guess...

:shrug:

[madokie]

13. No boutadoubtit

none whatsoever.

[foxfeet]

22. Can't wait to see what they do to the Washington Monument.

:P

[AsahinaKimi]

32. You are thinking a giant condom?

They would go nuts over that!!

[Taverner]

6. Cool!

Of course, my temptation is to slide down the ribbon all the while going "wheeeee"

But then again, I'm crazy that way

[gateley]

7. It's Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Libby, Rove, et al who cheapened the WH.

Obama is restoring some dignity and class and honor.

[tmyers09]

8. They ARE?!?

REALLY?!?

[la_chupa]

9. maybe they don't love their mamas

Are they really upset about this?

[appleannie1]

10. If they are, post this at their site, Bush puts up red ribbon for AIDS

Two-Story AIDS Ribbon at White House
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Share November 30, 2007 10:22 AM

ABC News' Ann Compton reports: The nation's capital awoke to a surprise at the White House front door. Overnight cranes draped a giant AIDS red ribbon, two stories tall, on the North Portico of the White House. It will remain in place for two days marking World AIDS Day December 1st.

Such a dramatic symbol is a first here, but the Bush administration has long felt it is not getting the credit due for the President's "PEPFAR" initiative (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) which has spent something approaching $15 billion on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in vulnerable African and Caribbean nations. President Bush has also asked Congress to double that amount up to $30 billion over the next five years.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/11/the-2-story-tal.html

[struggle4progress]

29. Thanks!

[rfranklin]

11. What's next...a giant condom on the Washington monument?

That great national phallic symbol commemorating the father of our country wrapped in latex?

[LeftinOH]

16. Actually, that's a pretty good idea for a safe-sex promotion 'piece'..

Christo could do it. Won't happen, though.

[warrior1]

because

they are lily livers scaredy cats.

[MineralMan]

12. For the Limbecker morons, breasts are only useful as

something to ogle or fondle. Nothing else matters.

[damntexdem]

14. Freepers can't take a good ribbon.

;-)

[ingac70]

15. If the ribbon was a bastardized version of the US flag....

made in China, of course, and a white RepubliKKKan were in office they wouldn't have a problem.

[Mugu]

17. How about a link to backup the charge.

[drm604]

18. Because it's Obama's White House.

They're freaking out over it's very existence as long as he's in it.

[fascisthunter]

19. "It's a Sign!!!!!111!"

well, actually a symbol. The far right abhors anyone who shows any empathy at all.... ignore them.

[sakabatou]

20. They abhor anything good

[kitkat65]

21. Because anything to bitch about when it comes to Obama is like manna from heaven.

Who knows? Maybe they'd be happier with a large pair of those chrome balls/testicles you see hanging off the hitches of trucks.

[Arkansas Granny]

23. Do you have a link to their "freakin out"? I'd love to hear what they are saying.

[guitar man]

24. Because there is a Dem in the WH

If it was one of theirs in the oval office, that same pink ribbon would be just fine by them ;)

[Mrs. Overall]

25. Because Republicans don't give a rat's ass about women's health issues--

remember when bush jr. appointed a man who had been a veterinarian to head the women's health department at the FDA?

[defendandprotect]

26. That the Bush White House stood for TORTURE and everything corrupt didn't bother them . . .

but a health care issue where the White House is on the side of the suffering does!!!

And, it again tells us clearly what "values" these people hold!!

:eyes:

[ChickMagic]

27. Don't they realize that men get breast cancer too?

http://www.medicinenet.com/male_breast_cancer/article.htm

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/male-breast-cancer/DS00661

http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content_Binaries/806-320a.pdf

even a KISS member developed breast cancer:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091022/people_nm/us_petercriss

and for the compassionate male:

http://www.menagainstbreastcancer.org/

[HipChick]

28. great links!...

[ChickMagic]

31. Thanks

I worked with a doctor who was doing research on
men with breast cancer. You should hear them
howl getting a mammogram.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

30. Because it's a moral and decent thing. nt