Sexual Abuse Victims Can Now Receive US Asylum In Reverse Of Bush Policy

nytimes.com:

The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The action reverses a Bush administration stance on an issue at the center of a protracted and passionate legal battle over the possibilities for battered women to become refugees.

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Comments

[nycwerewolf]

Awesome. All of you Obama haters (liberal or conservative) need to shut up. The guys is doing quite a bit of good. Show some respect.

[Thornton Tice]

I don't hate Obama. I don't admire him either. He voted for the biggest rip off in history that gave $700,000,000 (that's $700 billion dollars to the ultra rich with no strings attached. A half a trillion dollars of that money was ripped off from Social Security and now Social Security isn't sure if it will have the money to assist those who will be coming into their time of needing their SS benefits. Why? Because their socked away earnings have been looted by Obama and the rest of the Senate with the exception of one lone senator from Alabama (RICHARD SHELBY). Both Republicans and Democrats (including Obama) gave away 700 BILLION DOLLARS TO THE RICH WHO FLEECED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC'S MONEY. Obama followers are naive and complicant in their having supported him for President. Not that any of the other major parties offered any better.

[larissa68]

You're assuming that fighting crazy with logic will work.

It won't.

[breakingpoint]

I applaud this reversal, but accusing people who disagree with Obama's other policies and telling them to "shut up" it something I'd expect from a bully. Which is rather ironic in this particular thread, but perhaps that was your intention or maybe you hate free speech and just a bully or into abuse yourself?

Anyway, it's just very weird.