[brockers]

As several people have already pointed out, there is almost no argument that can be made against giving it to him that isn't invalidated by Obama receiving it. That is the problem with turning everything into a statement of political ideology; the thing looses it's value. Instead of centering our identities around ideas, we have started centering them around people and parties.

People forget, but there was a time people would be members of the NRA and the ACLU. Where a person could support gay rights, and support religious objections...

We have reached the point we're, in politics, we don't care how we occomplish our goals; only that we get what we want from the system.