To: neverdem
The symbolism of the dont ask, dont tell repeal cannot be underestimated. Its not just that for the civil-rights community, it represents a long-awaited extension of the historic arc first blacks, then women, now gays. It was also Obama decisively transcending the triangulated trimming of Bill Clinton, who instituted dont ask, dont tell in the first place. Even more subtly and understatedly, the repeal represents the taming of the most conservative of the nations institutions, the military, by a movement historically among the most avant-garde. Whatever your views, that is a cultural landmark...Gee Charlies "people"(animals) sticking their wankers in unsanitary places as a protected class, the same as the black struggle. Charles, I hardly knew thee.
5 posted on
12/24/2010 2:31:50 PM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
I thought Charles was brighter than that....even MANY Democrat Blacks have a hard time with the “gay” issue. He really is outta touch.
50 posted on
12/24/2010 3:10:04 PM PST by
goodnesswins
(You deciding how to spend your health care $, thatÂ’s freedom. Govt deciding, thats a death panel)
To: central_va
charles is a poofter... who knew?
LLS
61 posted on
12/24/2010 3:34:58 PM PST by
LibLieSlayer
(It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a dim to enter the kingdom of GOD!)
To: central_va
Charles, I hardly knew thee. I wonder, who anointed him (Charles Krauthammer) as a
"strong" conservative...the usual suspects (NYT et al)?...
I'm NOT saying' he's a CINO...it maybe just (another) case of "the smartest guy
in the crowd again" syndrome again?
175 posted on
12/26/2010 7:22:43 PM PST by
skinkinthegrass
(Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my only "health" plan....to hell w/ free enterprise system :^)
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