delegation to the russia olympics in sochi and said it will include openly gay athletes. this is in defiance of russia s recent crackdown on homosexuality. i support same sex marriage. i am a gay rights advocate from the right. and clearly the president is delivering a strong message to russia in this. but aren t there stronger messages we need to deliver to russia on say, syria and iran? yes. but the olympics maybe the olympics is a place to deliver a message to brush the invasion of afghanistan but i love this message. i think this is a great in your face message. he is with holding presidential excellence, vice presidential excellence, first lady excellence, what is he doing? he is sending them gays and the lesbians. i thought it was brilliant. i m super excited about it and i think it is interesting that you can now have a president of the united states slap down putin on the issue of gay rights. that wouldn t have been possible ten years ago and now it is. it seems to me rep
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defense. bankrupt to lose the defense hold of your coalition? you re about defense hawk. where the two-thirds of republicans voted for this deal which proves they are not totally obsessed with sequester. a lot of them voted for silly reasons. they knew it would pass. if anything i think defense is being cut too much but that will be a debate republicans will have. they re not in perfect shape as a party. i would say if you think where they were a year ago, totally reeling after the romney defeat. in total disarray on the issues. the kinds of candidates that republicans have in 2014 in these races. they re better off than i expected. this last budget deal in part referencing got done largely without obama. should he maybe just step aside and let folks form coalitions on their own? well you wish. he wishes.
he has said when he gets involved, if he endorses something that makes every republican in congress scurry away. how is he leading? where is he leading? well, he can lead in the ways that i said before. and he can lead in making the argument i thought he made a pretty good, not perfect but pretty good speech on income inequality and he can lead. he can defend the hard work pr professionals in the security industry. i ll tell you an area where he is leading and should continue to lead is on the question of social policy, inclusion and everybody could you being. the president took a stand. a tough stand yesterday when he announced the u.s. delegation to the olympics and it includes in a slap to putin some prominent openly gay athletes.