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Harvey Milk awarded presidential medal
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 7/30/9 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Posted on 7/30/2009, 7:56:25 PM by SmithL

The late San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk received the presidential Medal of Freedom award today with 15 other recipients ranging across the professional and ideological spectrum, from the late supply sider Jack Kemp to tennis star Billy Jean King to Sen. Edward Kennedy, whose absence from the health care debate due to brain cancer treatments has weighed heavily on the White House.

The medal is the country's highest civilian honor. President Obama said all the recipients "share one overarching trait: Each has been an agent of change. Each saw an imperfect world and set about improving it, often overcoming great obstacles along the way. Their relentless devotion to breaking down barriers and lifting up their fellow citizens sets a standard to which we all should strive."

Milk, celebrated in an award-winning film, became in 1977 the first openly-gay elected official in a major U.S. city. He and Mayor George Moscone were shot and killed by former supervisor Dan White in 1978. Then board of supervisors president Dianne Feinstein was among the first on the scene, leaving an indelible impression on her, while opening her path to becoming Mayor of San Francisco, one-time candidate for governor and now U.S. Senator.

The White House praised Milk for encouraging lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender citizens "to live their lives openly"

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0bama; bhohomosexualagenda; democrats; harveymilk; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; milk; mof; obama; sanfranciscovalues
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Does this presidential medal come with presidential twinkies?
1 posted on 7/30/2009, 7:56:26 PM by SmithL
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Obama is an airhead.
2 posted on 7/30/2009, 7:57:53 PM by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: SmithL

Gosh, I think I’m choking up....


3 posted on 7/30/2009, 7:58:03 PM by clintonh8r (Honduras can happen here. Yes it can!)
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To: SmithL

Sick people creating a sick Nation.


4 posted on 7/30/2009, 7:58:53 PM by mulligan
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To: clintonh8r

Got milk?

Hey, wait a minute, that’s not MILK!!!


5 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:00:03 PM by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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6 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:00:10 PM by Cindy
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To: SmithL

The fact that one was given out to man who drowned someone in his car and walked away speaks volumes of the depravity of this nation which continues to sink to new lows.


7 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:00:41 PM by Welcome2thejungle
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To: SmithL

milk set about to “improve the world”

that’s a real stretch... bringing sodomy into the normal American experience improves the world? Why not include beastality? that’s also as anal intercourse!! When did Right and Wrong die?

obamanation is just that... a horrible obamanation against America.


8 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:01:08 PM by bareford101 (the obamanation is a COUNTERFEIT with a COUNTERFEIT birth cert. & 39 different ss cards)
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For the Record: Milk and Kool-Aid (The truth about Harvey Milk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji88EAnDf78


9 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:03:54 PM by Califreak (My word calibrator's in the shop)
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To: SmithL

Was this ‘Rahm it i...uh...I mean THROUGH’s’ idea?


10 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:07:03 PM by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: SmithL
Medals awarded by an Empty Suit are meaningless. I know this: if I received a Medal from Reagan or GWB, THAT would have meaning.

Getting a medal from The Thug or any dhimmicrat is completely worthless.

11 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:09:57 PM by kromike
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I think they should change his name to Harvey Half and Half.........if fits better


12 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:12:18 PM by sfvgto (Washington D.C. is a great place to live...........if you are a cockroach)
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To: SmithL

Instead of a medal it should have been a cutoff of all funds for AIDS treatment!


13 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:13:29 PM by dalereed
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To: SmithL

We don’t need change. We need constancy...constant observance of our legal framework.


14 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:15:15 PM by Tax Government (Vote all the clowns out of office...especially Bozo.)
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To: tet68

ROFL


15 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:19:11 PM by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: SmithL

If being a jerk is now sufficient reason for getting the award, why didn’t he give Professor Gates one at the same time?


16 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:19:36 PM by Verginius Rufus
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17 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:19:43 PM by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Yep, google Folsom Street Fair...


18 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:20:31 PM by AliVeritas (Ez 38 Pray.)
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To: SmithL

That’s gonna help his Rasmussen approval rating.


19 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:21:58 PM by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: SmithL

Sean Penn must be pleased. Wonder if he’s going to accept the medal on behalf of the late Mr. Milk.


20 posted on 7/30/2009, 8:22:33 PM by fatnotlazy
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