President Obama, instruct your Justice Department not to appeal the recent DADT ruling.

[VMI Dem]

DADT is unconstitutional. You have the power to stop an appeal. There is no good reason to appeal.

Do what is right.

[Orsino]

1. That would say more for the president...

...than all his promises of what Congress is going to do.

[ThomCat]

3. It would. It would show that he actually intends to live up to all his

pretty words. But that's exactly why none of us expect him to give instructions like those to his Justice Department.

So far he has failed to instruct them to do anything even remotely favorable to the LGBTQ community, and has done nothing to restrain them from using horribly bigoted language in their defenses of bigoted legislation in the past.

[joeybee12]

2. Come on, he has to appeal...the law says...

oh wait, it DOESN'T say that...he DOESN'T have to appeal.

Wait for it...someone else will try what i just pulled, and scarily enough, believe it.

[ThomCat]

4. Yup, I'm surprised that someone else hasn't already done it.

Someone will pull that out of their ass because they really do believe it. Just wait... :(

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[CTyankee]

6. Eongh is enough!

IMO, Obama needs to move on this, get his generals in a room and tell 'em what has to happen and then just DO it! There is NO evidence that we can't have an effective fighting force without DADT or any other restriction that singles out gays. In fact, DADT is hurting our effectiveness, by limiting the talent and brains we need in our armed forces.

This is ridiculous. President Obama, do the right (and smart) thing! Now!

[LonePirate]

7. I guess the military must be exempt from his change campaign theme.

Just add it to the list I suppose.

[The Philosopher]

8. Psh

Everyone knows only heterosexuals need to trust their fellow foxhole attendee. :sarcasm:

[Spazito]

9. Yep, if you want President Obama to act just like the bush regime...

and interfere with the independence of the Department of Justice, something that DUers, in unison, were appropriately enraged about not so long ago.

Article from 2007:

Politics weakens Justice Dept. independence

snip

“We have a Justice Department that has substantially been turned into a political arm of the White House,” said Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer and a Justice Department official in the Reagan administration, who's become one of the conservative movement’s fiercest critics of the president.

“To elicit confidence in the legitimacy of law enforcement, you have to at least create the appearance to the public that prosecutorial decisions and high-level personnel decisions do not pivot on political affiliation,” Fein said. “Irrespective of whether there’s actual partisanship in these decisions, the fear among the public is that this is occurring. It creates a chilling effect on the entire political discourse of the country.”


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/06/18/17061/politics-weakens-justice-dept.html

[The Philosopher]

10. So

DADT is a political move?

[Spazito]

11. DADT was an act of Congress, passed by Congress...

is Congress political? I would say yes, most assuredly. Congress, an elected/political body, must repeal DADT. To even suggest the President interfere by breaching the independence of the Department of Justice by ordering them not to appeal, well, as I pointed out in my original post, is to want the President and his administration to act no differently than the Bush regime did during their reign.

[Starry Messenger]

12. kick.