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Hydra

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63. We're not even looking at Putin

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 11:22 PM

Sep 2013

We're looking at ourselves and how someone like Putin is right in calling us out.

Keep in mind that President Obama only recently evolved on the issue of LBGT equality- and it was religiously based discrimination to boot. Putin will have to evolve too. The pressure is on him, and while the issue is of deadly importance to the LBGTers tyrants can allow for it without it costing them much so they do when required.

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I'm with Rep. Pelosi on this one [View all] Motown_Johnny Sep 2013 OP

You're just an authoritarian USA! USA! BOGperson. What do you know? Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #1

You cracked me up with Cha Sep 2013 #61

Forget the messenger on this one - the content of his article is true. Cooley Hurd Sep 2013 #2

And you have proof Assad didn't gas his people as Putin asserts? Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #3

You have proof he did? Cooley Hurd Sep 2013 #5

All that matters is: PowerToThePeople Sep 2013 #10

Hahaha! Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #12

I just spewed English Breakfast tea. nt awoke_in_2003 Sep 2013 #38

you're not allowed to do that around here. Just like you're not allowed to be pro-marijuana liberal_at_heart Sep 2013 #7

The message came from the same propagandists at Ketchum PR that astroturfed for the Bush MADem Sep 2013 #59

And another thing! JustAnotherGen Sep 2013 #60

Exactly! PennsylvaniaMatt Sep 2013 #4

Nobody here sees Putin "as some kind of hero." Get a grip. polichick Sep 2013 #6

Amen! (and WTF to the OP) FiveGoodMen Sep 2013 #23

+100 nt Mojorabbit Sep 2013 #58

The issues are separate MNBrewer Sep 2013 #8

Putin is a homophobe like others who discriminate under the law against gay people Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #9

Thank you for creating much-needed moral equivalence between US and Russia on GLBT Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #11

If the facts are unacceptable to you you have huge issues. Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #22

Which is exactly the same as Russia's sanctioning to criminalize homosexuals Pretzel_Warrior Sep 2013 #25

No one said it was the same and you have no right of any kind to put words in my Bluenorthwest Sep 2013 #33

Bulk of the US?? Who lives in those intolerant states? MADem Sep 2013 #62

putin had a point, but that doesn't make him a hero noiretextatique Sep 2013 #13

It reminds me of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera, HMS Pinafore. winter is coming Sep 2013 #17

wow noiretextatique Sep 2013 #18

But I like opera, so I'm just a damned weirdo. :-) n/t winter is coming Sep 2013 #47

You aria gentleman and a scholar :) nt pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #53

The BOG does have to Hydra Sep 2013 #26

thanks noiretextatique Sep 2013 #28

I have a guess Hydra Sep 2013 #39

what point did Putin have other than saving face and Assad's ass? nt bluestate10 Sep 2013 #35

If more people would have paid attention to the message, instead of the messenger, this thread would RC Sep 2013 #43

My, my. Putin's sure getting a lot of attention n/t leftstreet Sep 2013 #14

The Message? Not so much. n/t A Simple Game Sep 2013 #36

I'm sure all zero of those people will do that. n/t winter is coming Sep 2013 #15

You say that as if you're not with Rep. Pelosi on all of them. Savannahmann Sep 2013 #16

Yes, I make up my own mind. Sometimes I agree with her Motown_Johnny Sep 2013 #49

Nancy pro-war, pro-NSA spying Pelosi? LittleBlue Sep 2013 #19

Pelosi is one of the most brlliant Speakers ever of the US House. She is by no measure, bluestate10 Sep 2013 #32

She wasn't brilliant enough to keep her speaker's job and now we are seeing the totodeinhere Sep 2013 #41

Pelosi thought Bush et al. were exceptional. nt OnyxCollie Sep 2013 #20

Wait, exactly who is looking at him as a hero? nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #21

It is a very common theme that is played out here all the time. zeemike Sep 2013 #34

Well some of us are just now plain out ignoring them nadinbrzezinski Sep 2013 #37

agiprop...I had to look that up. zeemike Sep 2013 #44

the only people hailing putin as a hero are people making false claims.. frylock Sep 2013 #24

k/r Dawson Leery Sep 2013 #27

Putin is a putz and Isoldeblue Sep 2013 #29

Putin is not some kind of hero. He's just another president of another country Autumn Sep 2013 #30

Heroes/villians Hydra Sep 2013 #40

+1000 RC Sep 2013 #46

+ 1000 woo me with science Sep 2013 #51

I just asked for people to take a second look. Motown_Johnny Sep 2013 #56

We're not even looking at Putin Hydra Sep 2013 #63

1000% agree. nt bluestate10 Sep 2013 #31

Deflection madville Sep 2013 #42

There's a better response to Putin's op-ed here: pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #45

thanks for the link, pinboy! Cha Sep 2013 #48

You're welcome, Cha pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #50

Yes, it gets to the nitty gritty.. and who doesn't trust Cha Sep 2013 #54

Having been on the ground in war before, I tend to trust those with experience on the ground pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #57

Nancy's Tweet.. Cha Sep 2013 #52

+1 Motown_Johnny Sep 2013 #55