Did you vote for him too, Meghan???
Posted on 10/12/2009 3:47:20 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
The gay community should stop rewarding President Obama's pretty speeches—like his address this weekend to the Human Rights Campaign—and demand action on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
BY MEGHAN MCCAIN
This weekend, thousands gathered for a march at the White House where the gay community demanded equal rights. On Saturday night, President Obama addressed the largest gay-rights group and promised to end the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the military, emphasizing that his commitment to achieving equal rights was “unwavering.” The support he received from the crowd was overwhelming.
But my response to this speech and my message to the gay community is this: Stop rewarding the president’s speeches. Because for me, that’s all it is—pretty words delivered by a beautiful orator.
Obama offered no timeline for phasing out this policy and, as usual, no real specifics. But the president verbalized his commitment to ending it—which is not insignificant. Unfortunately, I am a bottom line type of girl and I see no bottom line here. During the election, Obama pledged that the very first thing he would do as president would be to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Although I thought it was an ambitious promise, I believed him. It's now almost a year into his presidency and other than making speeches, nothing has happened.
Let me tell you a little something about what I know about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: I have two brothers serving in the military and as far as I’m concerned, when an Arabic translator is kicked out of the military for being gay, it quite literally makes my brothers and our troops less safe. For me, Don't Ask, Don't Tell isn't just an equality issue. It is also a national-security issue.
This is the point we should be emphasizing for those who refuse to see Don’t Ask Don’t Tell opposition as a human-rights campaign. We need to bring the issue back to the security of our country both overseas and at home. Every soldier in our armed forces is serving his or her country in the most admirable way an American can, and we should be able to respect them, by not asking them to hide their sexual orientation.
Now, I cannot speak for my brothers, but I know many men and women who serve in the military. Let’s give them more credit. Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, I suspect it could be said that there is no homophobia in foxholes either. I find it hard to imagine that when a soldier is in a Humvee fighting terrorist insurgents, that the thing on his mind is who his fellow soldier chooses to sleep with when he’s off duty.
What’s more, the gay community can no longer place all the blame of marriage equality and Don't Ask, Don't Tell on Republicans. Yes, the Republican Party has a long way to go. But right now, we have a Democratic president and a Congress with a Democratic majority. The Republican Party can no longer be the only scapegoat for the arrested development of gay rights in this country. This is a president who made promises to the gay community—hold him responsible.
Of all the things I worry about in my life, my country's national security is by far at the forefront. I am a daughter of a famous military hero and the sister of two soldiers. Mr. President, Don't Ask, Don't Tell makes my family and this country less safe. Put a timeline on repealing it, stop making speeches, and show me the bottom line.
Meghan McCain is a columnist for The Daily Beast. Originally from Phoenix, she graduated from Columbia University in 2007. She is a New York Times bestselling children's author, previously wrote for Newsweek magazine, and created the Web site mccainblogette.com.
Did you vote for him too, Meghan???
Cool graphic. Very appropriate.
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Shut up Meghan, you stupid b****.
Chump. More and more of you every day, aren't there?
“Obama’s Gay Dodge”
What, does he have a pink RAM pickup?
- JP
I did not know that. Columbia is the most leftward of all the Ivies. Columbia has probably screwed up Megan's brain.
Pretty stupid of gays to vote for a muslim.
“Obama’s Gay Dodge”
What, does he have a pink RAM pickup?
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LMAO!
I wonder though, when Meghan McCain decided she had enough experience in this world to be telling the rest of us where she stands? She’s pretty young and as far as I know, hasn’t really done anything in this world except be related to Juan McCain, not exactly a resume booster in and of itself.
She needs to quit trying to sell out the party and just shut up.
She can speak up all she wants. However she should do it for the democrat party . Besides , the only time anyone reads her is when some idiot posts it here . Pass it by..
Stupid is putting it mildly. Didn’t Hiter do the same thing....allow all the homos to come forward and identify themselves and think they were accepted by him. Until they found out differently on the Night of the Long Knives, that is. Of course, with Hitler it was just an excuse. But who is to say it wouldn’t be just an excuse again?
Gays had better get a clue, but their liberalness will probably prevent that, sadly.
Someone needs to unplug this bovine bitch. Flush please!
Ugh won’t this sunt shut up.
Of all the dim witted vapid and ignorant idiots involved in the media, and it took Meghan McCain to point out that anytime anybody these days says anything about “Republican resistance” or the relevance of Republicans to doing or stopping anything on the federal level (other than offering the fig leaf of “bipartisanship”) they are lies.
The Republicans have no power in Congress to even filibuster.
We need to hammer away at 0bama’s base.
Why are we still in Iraq? The Democrat party.
Why is Gitmo still holding prisoners? The Democrat party.
Why is the military policy of “don't ask, don't tell” official policy? The Democrat party.
If someone blames Republicans for anything not getting done at the federal level they are lying to you.
Let’s hear a little violin music. Cry me a river.....
First comment: You need glasses if you think Zero is beautiful.
Second Comment: "Great Orators" do not need TELEPROMPTERS!
Third comment: If I am on the battlefield and need a pint of blood from a fellow soldier I sure don't want to have to worry about a homosexual having HIV tainted blood.
“...the only time anyone reads her is when some idiot posts it here...”
Bingo. Rabscuttle, c’mon. McCain—in the Daily Beast? Why not post what Barbra Streisand said in the Daily Worker? I’d care almost as much about what that @$$clown has to say.
Why is McQueeg’s daughter even part of the GOP? Did the Rat party reach their fat chick quota or something? The last time—hell, the ONLY time I looked at her site, I thought I was watching that old Heart video. She’s more stretched on a TV screen than Joan Rivers could dream.
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I didn't know they made straight or gay cars.
I wonder if it's a Ram.
I may start believing that Meghan is gay herself. She is much too pushy when it comes to gays.
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