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How Reagan Could Teach Obama Something

By The Daily Dish

Oct 8 2009, 10:11 AM ET

Dan Savage notes the latest act of symbolism by the Obama administration to mollify the gay community: the ambassadorship to New Zealand and Samoa. Ronald Reagan also used an ambassadorship to send a symbolic message: he appointed a black man as ambassador to apartheid South Africa. So why not appoint an openly gay ambassador to, say, Jamaica?



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