• Barack Obama,  Gay Politics

    Obama Administration Having “Active Conversations” About Reversing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Gays in the Military Policy

    Village People: In the Navy

    Contradicting a Pentagon release earlier in the week that there were no plans to end the DNDT policy of homosexuals in the military, now according to Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs there are “active conversations.

    Check out the wee glimmer of a change in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” saga, buried in Thursday’s press conference by Obama mouthpiece Robert Gibbs. The last we heard, the Obama Administration was moving quietly to limit enforcement of the policy — but it wasn’t in any rush to change the policy. And, as Comrade Lochhead told us earlier this month, it looked like momentum to change DNDT was waning. Now? Judging what was said Thursday, sounds like plans are moving along faster than previously disclosed, albeit on the down low.

    Whatever that means?

    Why doesn’t Obama keep his promises to the homosexual community and OK gays in the military? Why is there reluctance?

    Could it be that it might hurt recruitment of soldiers?

    Or is he just a typical POL and hopes a court somewhere gives him a political out to a policy change that will alienate some voters?


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    Obama NOT Rushing to Repeal Gay’s in Military – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy

    President Obama is not apt to repeat Bill Clinton’s mistakes, now is he?

    President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military’s decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.

    Repealing the ban was an Obama campaign promise. However, Mr. Obama first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus and then present legislation to Congress, the advisers said.

    Let’s see the advantages:

    1. He keeps his homosexual constituency on hold while he collects campaign contributions from them.

    2. Obama attaches his new pro-homosexual military policy to an appropriations bill so the Democrats in Congress do not have to vote separately on this issue exposing them to electoral scrutiny.

    3. Did Flap mention the campaign contribution part and the “MILKING?”