DADT repeal - why it should have been so bloody simple

[derby378]

Okay, class, this is the first and last time I'm doing this.

This is what the Republicans say our military will turn into if DADT is repealed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0dWo31hwpI

And this is what I'm convinced our military will look like after the repeal of DADT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dxTBK7jI1s

Could I make it any clearer? Anyone who listens to the Republicans instead of the rest of the nation re: DADT is either badly misled or a complete moron.

[laughingliberal]

1. K & R nt

[derby378]

2. Thanks

Managing to drive off Lt. Dan Choi is a really, really bad move on this administration's part.

[Dawgs]

5. How are they trying to drive off Lt. Dan Choi?

Do someone say something?

[derby378]

6. I don't think they meant to...

...but their stand on DADT just cost Obama support from Choi and other gays in the military unless Obama is able to turn the situation around.

[elocs]

3. Don't know, but is it possible to be just a tad less condescending?

:shrug:

[derby378]

4. I don't understand

I thought my derision was aimed at those supporting DADT, not the GLBT community or the military as a whole.

[ArcticFox]

7. I don't know what that "condescending" remark was about

I would say Obama has successfully scuttled another yet great opportunity to obtain the change he campained on.

Watching the pattern, from letting health care reform turn into a republican wet dream, to attempting zero prosecutions relating to "derivatives", to his Attorney General threatening to prosecute Californians if they legalize marijuana, to avoiding a perfectly legal perfectly acceptable end to DADT (the Military was even following the injunction without a wimper), there seems to be no defeat that Obama cannot wrestle from the arms of success.

[derby378]

8. I foresee damage control starting in January...

...through which the Obama administration seeks to mend fences with the GLBT community and reenergize them for the 2012 elections and beyond. I see a lot of gay and lesbian Dems, some of them newly-minted Dems, who have been turned off lately by the administration's actions.