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Old 09-11-2012, 09:36 PM
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I am bold-facing the portion I find extreme irony over, considering how Republicans fight to try to allow businesses to corrupt our legal system with money they refer to as "free speech".

The day that Republicans truly espouse businesses staying neutral, I may pass out from shock!
I'm speaking from a business owner's standpoint. If I ran a pizza place or any place for that matter that deals with the public, I wouldn't think it wise to flip out the blue or red flag in the kind of contentious climate we've been having politically.
I knew a guy who had a big "Donate to Wallace" bucket on the counter and even Blacks frequented his restaurant (for take-out ) but I probably wouldn't be so lucky.
Best leave love and politics off the shirt sleeve if you wanna push your pepperoni.
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Ridiculous. It just fills me with anger, I can't even believe it. He gave the president a powerlift bear hug, big F****** whoop. He is the President of the United States and Commander in Chief. Even though I don't like the man's politics, I still respect him and that title. These people need to get lives. They are willing to harm a business for no reason other than their ignorance and arrogance.

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Ridiculous. It just fills me with anger, I can't even believe it. He gave the president a powerlift bear hug, big F****** whoop. He is the President of the United States and Commander in Chief. Even though I don't like the man's politics, I still respect him and that title. These people need to get lives. They are willing to harm a business for no reason other than their ignorance and arrogance.

Despicable.
But! What if it is lousy pizza? The the "one stars" are doing a public service.

I do agree with you in principle though. Bessie the proper way to chastise a small businessman who supports Obama would be to tax him into third world poverty, such that he would have to sell a kidney in order to survive.
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I will give Obama this; he is without question one of the most normal and people-friendly POTUS we have ever had. I love stories like this.

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Do you really think so? You may be right,of course. But to me he's always seemed completely plastic and condescending, like a sleazy salesman and swindler.

In other words, not someone who'd be comfortable at or any fun at a neighborhood barbecue.
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Ridiculous. It just fills me with anger, I can't even believe it. He gave the president a powerlift bear hug, big F****** whoop. He is the President of the United States and Commander in Chief. Even though I don't like the man's politics, I still respect him and that title. These people need to get lives. They are willing to harm a business for no reason other than their ignorance and arrogance.

Despicable.

Think Chik-N-Fila..............
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Think Chik-N-Fila..............
Had the exact same problem with that scandal as well.
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Just fyi: On the Huckabee report this morning, Huckabee said it wasn't a campaign stop as much as a recognition of charitable giving or participation by the restaurant. Something about childrens charities.
Huck called for people to calm down unless their "reflection in the mirror calls for them to boycott pizza".
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Next lift was Michelle, everyone dropped out.
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Think Chik-N-Fila..............
Nowhere near the same thing.
Chick-Fil-A gave to hate groups.
This has been documented.

This pizza shop owner simply said that he was voting for Obama, showed enthusiasm for Obama, and said he thought Obama had a better physique than Ryan.
THAT'S IT.

THAT is when the Repub side suddenly started a boycott movement.


The falseness of your allegation is plain for anybody who thinks objectively.
There are a variety of businesses that donate to "man+woman only marriage". We could make a list.
THEY DO NOT make the news with people trying to boycott them because they do not donate to hate groups.
Chick-fil-a did.

THAT is the difference.

If anything, "ignorance" comes from people who want to blindly pretend it was just about marriage equality.
It was NOT.
It was about a LOT MORE than just that.
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