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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-11 12:17 PM
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2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony
 
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Posted on YouTube: February 15, 2011
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Views on YouTube: 3083
 
Posted on DU: February 16, 2011
By DU Member: Renew Deal
Views on DU: 802
 
• National Resources Defense Council founder John H. Adams
• Poet Maya Angelou
• Businessman Warren Buffett
• Former President George Bush
• Artist Jasper Johns
• Holocaust survivor and author Gerda Weissmann Klein
• Civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)
• Dr. Tom Little, an optometrist who was murdered while on a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan
• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
• Civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel
• Hall of Fame basketball player Bill Russell
• VSA founder Jean Kennedy Smith
• AFL-CIO president emeritus John J. Sweeney
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-11 12:48 PM
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1. I remember thinking "Obama will not prosecute for war crimes who he gives Medals of Freedom to."
I thought it was a tasteful way of saying "Torture, obstruction, destroying the Constitution: Ya did good, Kid!"

PB
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-11 02:02 PM
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2. Man, I feel too beat down to watch this. I only have so much of my soul left.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-11 02:58 PM
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3. It's actually a really positive event.
A lot of good people are recognized for a lot of good things.
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-11 03:18 PM
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4. Right, and the whole thing is ruined by GHWB.
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