if you could have three vetoes...what would you veto?

so, the president has only seen fit to use his veto power twice in his six-plus years in office. let's recap, the two things the president had to veto were trying to cure alzheimer's and ending the killing of american troops in iraq. now, the president is ready to whip out the veto stamp again for another equally monumental bill that should simply never be law: adding gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law. such dangerous legislation, all three of them.

so, using republican logic, the president hates old people, the troops, and gays. but, he's still fond of the internets, as he told some supporters (yes, he still has some) yesterday:

“I talk to a lot of families who have got a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in this global war on terror, and they are in constant communication with their loved one. That’s amazing, isn’t it. You’ve got a kid in Iraq who is emailing mom daily, talking about the realities of what he or she sees. Information is moving — you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it’s also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.”