See the Pictures From Inside the Racy ‘GoGo for Obama’ Event at a NYC Gay Bar (Content Warning: Including USA Flag Thong!)
A number of Obama supporters gathered in New York City over the weekend to fundraise for Obama in a rather unconventional fashion.
Congregating in what the Washington Post described as a “grungy gay bar” in Manhattan’s East Village, patrons paid a $100 cover charge before entering into a world of scantily clad dancers and Obama paraphernalia.
According to the New York Post, the bar is co-owned by Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend, but the CNN host did not make an appearance.
Here is the cover photo on the website for “Eastern Bloc” bar:
The Washington Post describes the event:
The fundraiser, hosted by a gaggle of models, fashion editors and socialites, is just one of hundreds of such small, grass-roots events organized by individual donors and held throughout campaign season in private homes or during backyard barbecues. Saturday’s soiree proved that with broad support from new interest groups comes a new breed of campaign fundraiser — a kind that might make some buttoned-up campaign types wince.
The crowd of about 150 Obama supporters was cordial and relaxed, a mix of friends and fashion types, partying alongside male dancers wearing Obama ’08 boxer briefs (or, as one did, an American flag-themed thong) stuffed with the requisite $1 bills. (Only door proceeds went to the reelection fund; dancers kept their tips.) [Emphasis added]
We can’t know for sure, but the boxers could have looked something like this:
Mickey Boardman, editorial director for New York’s independent Paper Magazine, helped organize the event, and has been tweeting about it for days:

Mickey Boardman, left, dances in front of a large photo of the first couple. (Photo: Twitter/AskMrMickey)
It’s unclear which dancer was wearing the American flag thong, but this is one of the more disturbing photos from the event that was published (TheBlaze has chosen to blur the image, but warning that the photo located at the link has not been altered):
Dancers were apparently able to see massive photos of the president and first lady while dancing:

Two Obama supporters stand in front of large photos of Michelle and Barack Obama. (Photo: Instagram/douglasfriedman)
Despite some of the shocking pictures, the event’s organizers say they tried to refrain from advertising the night as too graphic in order to prevent Republicans from “[jumping] on it…as some sex party.”
The Washington Post has more on the fundraiser’s inception, and how the planning committee worked with Democratic officials to navigate confusing finance laws:
“We do these parties for gay porn stars at Eastern Bloc whenever [they’re] in town from L.A.,” said Boardman. “It’s always a room of Village gays, socialites, porn stars, fashion people. . . . We thought, ‘Why don’t we do a go-go thing at Eastern Bloc for [Obama]?’ ”
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And Wikle said the host committee was diligent in its two months of planning, working with Democratic officials to navigate campaign finance law, something that the organizers knew little about. Wikle said officials told the host committee it couldn’t have liquor sponsors or an open bar. [Emphasis added]
Guests were reported to include former New York Ranger Sean Avery and Karen Elson, the ex-wife of the White Stripes’ Jack White.
The Obama campaign has not released a statement on the event and, according to the Washington Post, will only investigate it if it receives a disproportionate wave of complaints.
“We’re not Anna Wintour,” Marjorie Gubelmann, an organizer of the Eastern Bloc event, explained. “We just wanted to throw a small party where our friends could have fun.”
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tootsie roll
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:57pmDevils spawn the BO’s and this group at the party.
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Wayner
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:28amI think my breakfast is about to come back up.
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sillyfreshness
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:40pmDon’t tell me these people aren’t mentally ill sexual deviants. Now you are to not only “accept” or “tolerate” them, but you’re supposed to support them getting married. Your job as a self hating, hetero lib is to wake up every morning and ask yourself how you can further the gay agenda along.
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sillyfreshness
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 5:45pmNotice how well kept of a secret Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend was? Now it’s just “common knowledge” that his bf runs a sick, mentally ill gay bathhouse in NY. The media all kept that a secret from the public. I heard through rumor that Cooper’s bf ran a gay orgy house that offered free “mustache rides” to the patrons. It was all a big secret. Now it’s just like no big deal. Why everybody and his brother knew Cooper’s bf ran a gay sex bar in NY. It’s was just common knowledge. Funny now how it’s mentioned like everybody was aware of it, when if fact, it was kept secret by the “chosen people” ran Marxist Media.
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ronin_6
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:56pmGood for them. After all, as I have been told numerous times on here, homosexuality is not a mental disorder. There is nothing wrong with these people. This kind of behavior is perfectley natural.
Yeah…okay….
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floridareader
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:01pmI have heard from female friends regarding to men: “they are like public phones: half are busy and half are damaged”.
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booger71
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:11pmI was hoping to see lil Joe Biden getting a lap dance from Anderson Cooper’s boyfriend.
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RedheadedStepchild
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:12pmRonin…this is my son’s name. Good choice for a name, if I do say so myself. :)
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max00man
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:53pmI’m with FLORIDAREADER on this one… I have two lesbian friends and they don’t like gay dudes either. They say they’re pigs that turn a different guy out every night and a lot of times they get together and have a sausage-fest. They can say they were “born that way” all they want. Unless there are or were born hermaphrodites they weren’t born that way… It’s learned behavior and if they want to live that way, I say it’s a free country, just don’t try and push your minority beliefs on me or children via the school system or any other means.
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toto
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:16pmAn absolutely disgusting degenerate group of people with no respect for their bodies or the bodies of others. The worst of people promoted for the almighty dollar. Promiscuity is NOT a good thing, and children are harmed by the attitudes and behaviors of these people.
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13th Imam
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:54pmSausage Fest
Now that’s funny
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kryptonite
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:00pm@MAX
They ARE brainwashing our children. They are also adopting them. Frankly I don’t know which is worse for an unwanted baby: to be aborted or to be adopted by p e r vs. Any child who is raised by these people will be mentally, morally and spiritually warped.
Stats reveal the disturbing truth regarding the rise in AIDS among young gays (not just in America, but worldwide), but Barack is trying to keep post 2009 CDC reports from public view. They are not readily available on the Internet like the used to be.
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SUNTZU
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:28pmQ’s for O
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max00man
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:35pmKRYPTONITE & 13TH IMAM-
Thanks to the Dept of Education and local teachers unions our children (mostly boys) are learning great things such as oral sex, fisting, reach arounds, how to properly toss a salad and so much more great things that they’ll need to know before going to prison for the first time… They have come so far since I started school in the late 70′s being taught “Jimmy Carter, good! Reagan, bad!”… Back then dads were upset if they caught their 16 yr old son having pillow fights with several boys whereas now their worried about them tea-bagging each other, giving each other amateur Prince Albert piercings and having ‘sword fights’… Don’t forget they need 4 more years to finish the work they’ve started.
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 9:30pm.
It’s good to know where the morons are.
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kettererbg
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:04amDumbocraps and degenerates. Talk about a combination that goes hand in hand. Or hand in rear.
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turkey13
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:47amI wonder if they ever go up to bar and order a case of AIDS please! I saw the picture of the 3 Q_ueers and pictured Obama bent over a barrel and these F_ags lined up behind taking turns. It makes me think of the WHY, Obama and the Democratic party have came out supporting Q_ueers and L_izzies getting married for 1% of the vote. I then picture us USA citizens bent over the barrel with Obama behind us.
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kadster01
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:34amMore deluded, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-important cretins who are wholly insignificant on the world stage. It is rather telling of the sort of people who would support Obama, though. The inside secret, however, is that if the latter were to achieve his socialist utopia, these are the sort who would be among the first in line for extermination.
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dogdr
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:52amCome on everybody…….hands in the air- how many of you came here just to see pictures of gay guys dancing in thongs? We know Marcus Bachman has this page on autorefresh so he can check for new pictures regularly but what about the rest of you with your fixation on gay guys? How much time do you spend cruising the internet looking for pictures of guys in thongs so you can complain about it?
I would guess a lot. I don’t know any gay guys who obsess about gay sex as much as Republicans do. Now move on to the next story and don’t forget to clean your keyboard.
By the way, calling me gay and/or accusing me of being some sort of degenerate really isn’t an insult to me. I am not confused by my own sexuality or frightened by others’.
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DLV
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:52pmPlease if onlys and buts were candies and nuts then everyday would be unkadonkfeast.
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oldduffer
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:11pm@booger71
Problem being old is that I laughed so hard I peed in my thong.
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neiman1
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:51pmWhy should it shock anyone that a crowd at a Gay Bar supports Obama?
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code green
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:09pmDo ya think Larry Sinclair was there?
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:34pmYeah, I’d say that men’s-only bath-house Obama and Rahman visit, in Chicago, supports Obama, too.
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DagneyT
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:43pmEspecially since all of Chicago’s gays are aware obozo is gay.
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:56pmLarry Craig, Mark Foley and Marcus Bachmann were men’s rooms attendants.
Attending to the men. Wink, wink.
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kryptonite
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:32pmAll I know is that the pseudo-Repub in Florida who had a man-crush on his prez tried a little dirty dancing, but Obama got first public-time jitters. Now he’s watching all the Patrick Swayze videos while MO is not around:
COMPARE!
Here’s Barack: http://gestetnerupdates.com/tag/pizza-man-lifts-obama/
But a man can never do it like a woman, @1:42: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oKUTOLSeMM
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:28pmKRYPTONITE, Funny that I am just now reading your post. Rush is just now talking to one of his callers, who brought up the hugging pizza guy. Rush has pointed out how his regular customers are now boycotting his restaurant just for that hug. He’s been begging apparently in ads for his customer not to boycott him.
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G.E.R
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:49pm“It’s unclear which dancer was wearing the American flag thong, but this is one of the more disturbing photos from the event”.
It’s as disturbing as Sarah Palin posing with a rifle in a American Flag bikini.
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ronin_6
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:54pmYou don’t know that was photo shopped? And it wasn’t even a real rifle, it was a Crossman bb gun.
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tootsie roll
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:56pmWhich was PHOTO SHOPPED. YOU MUST BE OF THE FLAG DANCING ILK
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floridareader
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:56pmSarah Palin, really?
That photo was as real as US Force One flying over NY.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/palin.asp
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DBlo
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:58pmThat Palin picture was a fake. What’s disturbing about this is that it’s not.
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G.E.R
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:59pmWhether it was shopped or not. It’s still a disturbing picture
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:05pmGER
I don’t understand what you find disturbing about a bikini-clad woman holding a BB gun? What about a squirt gun?
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kryptonite
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:45pm@ANONYMOUS
Only that the DimComs did it. They are experts at character @ssassination.
(I wonder what I said this time that got me censored. Hope it’s not “DimComs”.)
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13th Imam
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:56pmGER got a stiffy over that thong photo.
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G.E.R
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:06pmAn American Flag bikini and in this article a thong(which they warned was an American Flag). The Flag has no meaning anymore it’s been reduced to nothing more than a tool used in advertising. The pseudo patriots that commented on here the other day on an article about the flag touching ground and how that’s a violation of flag etiquette. The Blaze got the owner of a flag company claiming he was an expert and had him comment about it. But if you go to his company website right there on his main page is a clear violation of flag etiquette because he’s using it in an advertisement.
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2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:11pmClose your eyes and imagine it was Barney Frank in the flag thong……
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G.E.R
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:29pmIt’s better if I imagine your mom
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grayling646
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:13pmSo you’re gay, GER?
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loneindividual
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:29amRonin….for you to know those details…you must have looked very closely.
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DIR
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 9:24amGo to ‘about.com’ urban legends. The Palin photo (in bikini w rifle) is a fake. It gives you the facts and the picture from which is was taken. Just like everything else the libs do, lie and distort … lame try That picture of Joe Biden though with some biker babe on his lap and him blowing sweet nothings in her ear is the real deal. Now that’s sickening.
As far as the gay bar, an official olympic roid inducing center, there’s nothing wrong with a bunch of fruits throwing a fruit festival in support of Barry. Concerning the flag draped body parts, some guys like their flag as a sausage wrapper, others prefer it as a cover for a woman’s weapons of love. Most Americans love it for what it was originally designed and the different patriotic meanings associated therewith. Of course there are those who hate it, another special interest group represented by the left.
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G.E.R
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:05pm@DIR
So violating flag etiquette is selective?
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DIR
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 11:53pmG.E.R
It’s a ‘free’ country with freedom of speech protected under the law. You might not like it, but it is what it is. It doesn’t matter what I think. I’d say if someone want’s to be offensive, to some that person will be offensive. Then what? Some people have class and other don’t. Ignor them! I try!
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huey6367
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:49pmOK, I’m creeped out.
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Tractorboy
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:56pmI feel like I have to wash my eye balls, blaze should have a better warning system….. Isn’t this the kind of stuff that helped destroy the great Roman empire?
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gosutag
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:48pm@ALL:
They can’t teach you guys how to read, either you learned or you hadn’t when looking at the link before clicking on it.
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floridareader
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:47pmTwo questions:
What is with the Russian banner in the background?
Did Obama attend following the same dress code?
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Deeduck
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:53pmIt says, “proletarians of all countries, unite!”
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MrButcher
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 8:51amApparently that is the motif of the bar.
It’s called the Eastern Bloc Bar.
Which is rather strange. The Soviets never liked homosexuals all that much.
They should call the place Manhole.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:43pmThat is funny, Russia has recently broken up attempts to have Gay Pride parades, and made a number of arrests. Our American left just can’t figure this out and still promote their desire for a Soviet style Socialist lifestyle. Only, it ain’t! Fools’ paradise.
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jas0707
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:46pmWould you let any of these be alone with your children?
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:04pmOnly if they had the word FATHER in their title.
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Too_Far_Gone
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:46pmSick bast@rds ..
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coachsteve
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:57pmI don’t remember which philosopher it was that I studied back in college who reasoned that one of the tests for determining whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy… was to consider if that thing, action, or culture became the vast majority or norm, would that be good? Conversely, if it did not exist, would things generally be better or worse, safer or more dangerous?
That is a long way to say: if these types of places all burnt down while everyone was inside, fund raising with their American Flag g-strings, America would be a better place.
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Baracalypse
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:45pmSTANDARDS OF RESPECT
The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, fireman, policeman and members of patriotic organizations.
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762x51
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:44pmNews Flash: OBAMA BACKED BY GAYS!
Kinda says it all, especially if you look at that mondo-wife of his.
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Truth4SureNuff
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:52pm762×51 you are quite correct. I prefer 284×64.5
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nighttrainno9
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:42pmYou mean chewbacca, chewy would be insulted.
338 Lapua, my favorite
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Jim
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:43pmTruly, when government is associated with all this, the end times is near and and I pray that God will show mercy on us as a country. I never thought I would see the day when all of this Sodom and Gomorrah would be associated with Government.and pushed on the nation as it has today. May God Have Mercy on Us.
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Mopar 1969
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:27pmI couldn’t agree more with yoy, may God help us though I believe it’s too late.
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gosutag
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:49pm@JIM:
Your post should go a little more like this: “I only know what my preacher says at church and I can’t have my conclusion from the bible, so I hate all homosexuals.”
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Chromo200
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:42pmWait till their guy wins a second term and sets the stage for the Muslim Bortherhood to take over with Sharia law. These people will be back into the closet.
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joannhh
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 7:46amNo,no, they’ll be executed.
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BPMaine
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:42pmsooo… which one of the Village People do you think Obama most identifies with….
bp
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freenj
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:16pmThe Indian Chief of course!
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South Philly Boy
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:41pmHey was barney frank there?
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:58pmNot cute enough,
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dickdastardly
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:37pmyuk
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Exidor
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:36pmAw man, I just ate lunch.
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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:35pmIf you’re gay and you know it and you really wanna show it…
Vote for Obama.
If you’re gay and you know it and you really wanna show it…
Vote for Obama.
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bannedfromCNN
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:33pmThis is life in Obamaville.
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hold_my_stones
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:40pmRugged individuals ehh?
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MN NICE
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:32pmDammit… I should have known better than to click on this article… Now I’ve got the song “YMCA” stuck in my head
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SUNTZU
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:40pmBetter then having it stuck in your………….!
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landman1
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:57pmSun, Damn boy, you just made my Dr. Pepper come out of my nose. That was funny.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:32pmNewsweek did inform us Barry is gay so having the backing,no pun intended from gays makes sense.
Eastern bloc and Barry Soetoro sounds right since he’s a Marxist mulatto bi-sexual maggot in chief.
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Justusthem
Posted on September 11, 2012 at 12:01pmCouldn’t have said it better. My stomach is churning and this revolting story has me again and still grateful that I don’t live in NY. Hope these nasty q’s stay in NY. The DNC re-enforcing this life-style should help many Independents make up their minds. OMG What an obomination and of course a coming out for Obama.”A person is known by the company they keep”. Then – “Birds of a feather flock together”.
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Slowman101
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:32pmPass the KY and pull out your wallet!!
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coachsteve
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:50pmHey! Leave Kentucky out of this – lol
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freenj
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:57pmNo pass me a bottle of Jack Daniels, this made my eyes burn.
Like Rome are we heading for the end of the USA? Looks like it to me. An amoral society is what we have and the compass is broken, at times, I wonder if it’s beyond fixing? If we don’t get it right on November 6 th and get 0 out, I believe doomsday will be forthcoming.
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Wildblue3
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:30pmWow!! I don’t know about you but this confirms I’ll NEVER vote him. How about you all?
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subic
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:38pmIn the last photo, what do you folks make of the photo in the background? Looks to be some sort of communist propaganda on the screen with a guy shouldering a pick-axe and holding a rifle.
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Deeduck
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:51pmSubic, the first photo has a Lenin banner in the background saying “proletarians of all countries, Unite!” The last photo also has a Soviet propaganda poster in the background.
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Wilsonpd
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 4:31pmI guess it makes sense, the name of the bar is “Eastern Bloc” so the soviet banners & pictures & the rest of the decor are part of the theme. Unfortunately it is also part of Barry’s theme, right along with the Mao Christmas tree ornament.
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Small World
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:29pmIntrinsically disorder.
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Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:29pmDo they have gay bars in Iran ?
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FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:34pmYa they have gay bars in Iran. They’re right next door to the place that sells shovels and rocks.
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progressiveslayer
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:40pmAkmed say’s we have no gays in Iran,the thing is he’s probably a packer.
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helluvagoodgod
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:27pmNext video will show one of them sitting on Biden’s lap.
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762x51
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:40pmOMG! That is effing hilarious!
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