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Harvey Milk awarded presidential medal

SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 7/30/9 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Posted on 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"



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Does this presidential medal come with presidential twinkies?



To: SmithL

Obama is an airhead.



by 2 posted onby E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)

To: SmithL

Gosh, I think I’m choking up....



by 3 posted onby clintonh8r (Honduras can happen here. Yes it can!)

To: SmithL

Sick people creating a sick Nation.



To: clintonh8r

Got milk? Hey, wait a minute, that’s not MILK!!!



by 5 posted onby tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

To: All

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.



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.



by 8 posted onby bareford101 (the obamanation is a COUNTERFEIT with a COUNTERFEIT birth cert. & 39 different ss cards)

To: SmithL; All

For the Record: Milk and Kool-Aid (The truth about Harvey Milk) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji88EAnDf78



by 9 posted onby Califreak (My word calibrator's in the shop)

To: SmithL

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



by 10 posted onby RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)

To: SmithL

THAT would have meaning. Medals awarded by an Empty Suit are meaningless. I know this: if I received a Medal from Reagan or GWB,would have meaning. Getting a medal from The Thug or any dhimmicrat is completely worthless.



To: SmithL

I think they should change his name to Harvey Half and Half.........if fits better



by 12 posted onby sfvgto (Washington D.C. is a great place to live...........if you are a cockroach)

To: SmithL

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



To: SmithL

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



To: tet68

ROFL



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?



To: SmithL; All





by 17 posted onby musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")

To: bareford101; All

Yep, google Folsom Street Fair...



To: SmithL

That’s gonna help his Rasmussen approval rating.



To: SmithL

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



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