Posted on 01/14/2009 2:34:57 PM PST by Zakeet
President Obama will end the 15-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented homosexual and bisexual men and women from serving openly within the U.S. military, a spokesman for the president-elect said.
Obama said during the campaign that he opposed the policy, but since his election in November has made statements that have been interpreted as backpedaling. On Friday, however, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, responding on the transition team's Web site to a Michigan resident who asked if the new administration planned to get rid of the policy, said:
"You don't hear politicians give a one-word answer much. But it's 'Yes'."
The little-noticed response, made in a video posted on change.gov, made barely a ripple outside blogs focused on the gay community, but that's not surprising, said those who have been pushing to overturn the ban. Not only was Obama's position expected, they said, but support for reviewing or repealing the policy has grown markedly in recent years, including from some unexpected quarters.
The end of "don't ask, don't tell" may not happen immediately, several critics of the policy said. Although they appreciate clarity from Obama on the issue, they anticipate that the demands of the economy and two wars are likely to trump a speedy policy reversal.
"The question isn't if we do it and the question isn't when we do it, it's how we do it," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek, whose 2006 bill to repeal the ban earned broad support among Democrats in Congress but did not move forward in the face of a near-certain veto by President Bush.
"I'm going to reintroduce the bill in the next few weeks," Tauscher said. "We've got the American people behind us."
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I have no words to express my disgust right now.
All I can say is that I have served and there is no way I would want to have two friggin homos in the same shower, in the same room I have to sleep or even be around them.
This is a friggin outrage and then I hear now he is appointing a socialist to his cabinet,
CIA will be headed by someone who has no intel experience
the IRS, treasury will be headed by a man who doesn’t pay HIS taxes
B/S
This is what happens when a person who hates America becomes CIC.
Stem Cells, although the Japanese discovery makes it a moot point, they will continue.
Exec Order on FOCA, negating the hard fought gains for the Unborn.
Now the whole Gay Agenda further rammed down our throats.
The possibility of bringing back the Fairness Doctrine.
And God only knows what they will try to do to the 2nd Amendment...
The likes of Hastert, the RNC leadership and McCain and comity, have relegated to having no voice, as they march towards Socialism. The question is when to they push to far and how do we push back.
Sleep well, Amerika; you will be safe in your beds knowing that an army of rump-rangers is protecting you.
This sounds all so familiar.
Anybody remember what happened last time?
All the problems we have in foreign and domestic affairs and so far THIS is the only issue on which he’s been decisive.
We’re in for an amusing-disgusting-awesome-degrading-laughable-pathetic four years, if THIS is how it’s going to go.
A Secretary of the Treasury and House Appropriations Chairman that flubbed on their income taxes in amounts two and three times what some folks make?
A senator blaming CEOs for the mortgage industry collapse, when he was taking money from them as an overseer?
Did I just wake up in opposite world?
I served and will guarantee that i know of not one man who would want o serve with homos, not one and I forsee a lot of resignations over this along with I know my two sons who was looking to join have now said they will not
Watch the number of volunteers plummet.
How long will it be before he authorizes nailing Sheep and Goats? I’m glad my 26 years is over.
If we’ve “got the American people behind us” on this issue, I’m already looking over my shoulder.
What American people, surely not the Village People.
Makes me very nervous.
Someone's "behind" you alright, but I don't think it's the American people, other than a statistically insignificant minority like, oh, 2% or so.
Zero is implementing STEP ONE toward reinstating the draft. Without repeal of “don’t ask-don’t tell” draftees could get out by “coming out.” Without “don’t ask - don’t tell” there won’t be safety in perversion any more.
Just in time for the draft.
Not good...
When I was a teen, I was considering joining the military just as every generation of men in my family before me. Then Bill Clinton got elected.
I never made it to a recruiter’s office....
Centrist, huh?
You also forgot to mention Gay Marriage. Expect that one to be passed also.
There will be alot of soap kept in socks.....if you know what I mean..
I’m sure I would feel the same way.
EXACTLY
The figures I believe show that the Dems really never got a massive turnout compared to the last two elections but instead evangelicals and some conservatives stayed at home
I have not watched much news since the election as obama makes me want to puke with that arrogant stuck face of him but I sat down today to watch.
This is what I heard today
he is trying to appoint a woman who headed the socialist international
getting a man to run the treasury who never paid taxes for 4 years
getting a man to head the CIA with no intel experience what so ever
Now he wants openly homo’s to share a room with the military personal.
I am glad I got out now and have done my service but my two sons wanted to join and now have said that they will not join if this is the case and I would not want them to either.
B/S I am right now
what ever happened to the Kenyan passport deal?
Yes I am grasping at straws right now
The Left cannot outright ban our military forces. However, open faggotry in our armed forces will silently, slowly erode our military effectiveness.
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