EXCLUSIVE: Obama to delay repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell'

Wash TImes ^ | 11/21/08 | Rowan Scarborough

[pissant]

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.

"I think 2009 is about foundation building and reaching consensus," said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. The group supports military personnel targeted under the ban.

Mr. Sarvis told The Washington Times that he has held "informal discussions" with the Obama transition team on how the new president should proceed on the potentially explosive issue.

Lawrence Korb, an analyst at the Center for American Progress and an adviser to the Obama campaign, said the new administration should set up a Pentagon committee to make recommendations to Congress on a host of manpower issues, including the gay ban.

"If it's part of a larger package, it has a better chance of getting passed," he said.

[pissant]

The marxist is going to cause a new civil war.

[MrEdd]

Poor widdle Barry doesn’t want blame for this all by his lonesome.

poultry poop.

[cmj328]

RULING AMERICA - MASTER PLAN

Phase I. Capture prey in web. Check.
Phase II. Anesthetize prey so that it will stop fighting.
Phase III. Devour.

[Yaelle]

"Is there ANYTHIN' this gah won't do to copy me??

[Mojave]

DU is about to go into hysterics.

[SMCC1]

I see Team Barry is carrying over their Alinsky tactics to the White House.

[icwhatudo]

Hey DUmmies and Daily Kooks-BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Why isn’t Obama doing this on the 2nd or 3rd day in office, like Bill Clinton tried to do? If gay issues are such important civil rights issues, and liberals/Democrats/radicals are all about anything that somebody says is a civil right, how can he delay this?????

I was hoping he would push this on the 1st day or 2, then move on to homosexual marriage on day 3 or 4. The people deserve to know the entire Obama agenda, not just bits and pieces of it.

[ari-freedom]

“oh, like do tell”

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Hey Barry. It’s not nice to fool the Breeders.

[Tench_Coxe]

Obama is trying to keep the military from going apes**t. This gives enough time to get officers and the like in place. 1.5-2 years is enough time to get people in place to issue orders of questionable authority.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

Will his replacement approach be: “Do tell, whether or not they ask.”

[bombthrower]

Why do we even have Primaries let alone elections. These guys make promises to win a primary, then move to the center with a new set of promises, and never keep many, if any. It’s a joke. On what basis do we voters make a decision?

[ansel12]

Mitt Romney wanted to do away with it also, he disapproved of Clinton not going all the way and just opening it up to the gays.

[goldstategop]

I support the repeal. I think the policy is hypocritical and makes no sense whatsoever. The military should not be peeking into soldiers' sex lives.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Mojave]

Maybe Obama will just be “present” for the first four years in the hope that he could get reelected.

[goldstategop]

Come to think of it, that's why he's all but disappeared from the news after the election.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[angkor]

>>>>>>The military should not be peeking into soldiers’ sex lives. <<<<<<

There might be a nasty culture clash with openly homosexual men and heterosexual soldiers sharing military shower facilities from 5am to 7am every day.

[goldstategop]

There are disciplinary rules in places to deal with sexual harassment and that kind of stuff. In my view, as long as a person conducts himself decently in public, its none of my business what he does in private with another consenting adult.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Psycho_Bunny]

Since Clinton was the “First Black President”, I’m guessing The One will have to settle for being the “First Gay President”.