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Biden says transgender discrimination 'civil rights issue of our time'
Politico ^ | 10/30/12 | DONOVAN SLACK

Posted on 11/02/2012 2:11:33 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo

Vice President Joe Biden, leaving an Obama campaign office in Sarasota, singled one woman out because she had beautiful eyes, the pool reporter noted:

She said something ...at first inaudible to pool, to which VP responded was the "civil rights issue of our time"

Pool later asked the woman, Linda Carragher Bourne of Sarasota about the exchange. She said her daughter was Miss Trans New England and asked if he would help them.

"A lot of my friends are being killed, and they don't have the civil rights yet. These guys are gonna make it happen," she told the pool.

Biden has long been a vocal advocate for LGBT rights -- most memorably getting out "a little bit over his skies," as President Obama put it -- when Biden endorsed same sex marriage before the president did earlier this year.

The vice president met with LGBT leaders at his Washington, D.C., home last month, including transgender advocates, according to the Easton Patch. The Obama-Biden administration was the first to send a representative to a trans-gender conference.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; transgender
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To: DJ MacWoW

LOL. I love to see that picture on Joe ‘bite me’ threads.


21 posted on 11/02/2012 3:19:28 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 ("It's better to vote for a Republican you don't know than wind up with a dim you don't like".)
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To: Arrowhead1952
LOL!!!

He is so clueless. I've read that he's incredibly nasty too.

22 posted on 11/02/2012 3:21:18 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Rampant discrimination against straight, white, Christian males is the ‘civil rights issue of our time’.


23 posted on 11/02/2012 3:26:33 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (political correctness is communist thought control, disguised as good manners)
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To: DJ MacWoW

And then there was this Bite me mistake today:


There’s Never Been A Day In The Last Four Years I’ve Been Proud To Be His Vice President
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2953882/posts


24 posted on 11/02/2012 3:54:55 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 ("It's better to vote for a Republican you don't know than wind up with a dim you don't like".)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

“her daughter was Miss Trans New England,” she said with a straight face..

To which Joe replied, “sometimes I pretend that I’m president but nobody believes me either. So, I know how much playing pretend hurts. But remember, only “haters” hate pretenders.”


25 posted on 11/02/2012 3:57:27 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Yup. I already made a FReepathon graphic of that and added his “I mean what I say!” LOL


26 posted on 11/02/2012 4:03:57 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: DJ MacWoW
“I mean what I say!”

You go girl. Keep the donations coming in for FR.

27 posted on 11/02/2012 6:11:32 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 ("It's better to vote for a Republican you don't know than wind up with a dim you don't like".)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Ehhhhhh....it’s crazy Joe. He thinks transgender is a movie where cars turn into robots.


28 posted on 11/02/2012 6:22:23 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Arrowhead1952

:-)


29 posted on 11/02/2012 6:33:39 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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