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Obama says will end 'don't ask, don't tell' policy
ap ^ | 10.10.09 | CHRISTINE SIMMONS

Posted on 10/10/2009 6:10:58 PM PDT by VU4G10

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama pledged to end the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military in a speech Saturday, but acknowledged to a cheering crowd that the policy changes he promised on the campaign trail are not coming as quickly as they expected.

"I will end 'don't ask-don't tell,'" Obama said at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay civil rights advocacy group.

He did not give a timetable for the repeal of the law passed by Congress in 1993 and signed by President Bill Clinton, who also promised to repeal the ban on homosexuals in the military but was blunted by opposition in the military and Congress.

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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhohomosexualagenda; brokenpromises; cicobama; dadt; dodt; dontaskdonttell; gay; gaystapo; homobama; obama; pandering; perverts; sodomhusseinobama
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To: VU4G10
I still want to know how this would work. We currently separate men form women in squadrons. Will we put queer men in woman squads and lesbians in men squads, gay men with strait men, gays with gays, how does that work.

All I can say is that I would have loved to have had a cute lesbo as my bunk mate in basic.

21 posted on 10/10/2009 6:47:16 PM PDT by JoSixChip (The only thing broken in this country is the government.. .)
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To: JoSixChip

If it against the laws of our creation it doesn’t happen. Faggots, Queers, and all the rest provide nothing to the normal tenements of human life. They seem to despise it.


22 posted on 10/10/2009 6:51:48 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Iron Munro
I think he wants to drive normal, conservative minded people out of the military and turn it into just another social welfare program for minorities and misfits.

Yes, Obama was quite miffed at the military for having such a fondness for FoxNews, and they have him on video displaying his disgust (youtube it). In the vid Obama asks why every military base he visits, a crowd of Marines are usually found glued to a FoxNews report. This is his revenge.

23 posted on 10/10/2009 6:57:41 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: VU4G10

Obama says will end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy.

That’s so gay.


24 posted on 10/10/2009 7:00:59 PM PDT by Yankee (Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
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To: Soothesayer9

Obama is a Rev. Wright idiot. Work is a four letter word he didn’t have to face as a kid.


25 posted on 10/10/2009 7:01:22 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: VU4G10
This is not a matter of politics.

Making sex perversion simply a political matter, instead of a morality matter is the far left strategy.

This is above all, a matter of morality, decency and to make it even simpler, a matter of "right and wrong".

Homosexuality has always been known as sex perversion, destructive, and a crime against nature, because that is what it IS.

26 posted on 10/10/2009 7:10:48 PM PDT by gunsofaugust (Ignore the bishops who choose to ignore the laws that interfere with their leftist political goals.)
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To: VU4G10

Did you have to post the pic?


27 posted on 10/10/2009 7:15:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (90% of the fedgov is unconstitutional. The other 10% besides the military doesnt know what it's doin)
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To: VU4G10

28 posted on 10/10/2009 7:19:16 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: VU4G10

What a coward. Why won’t he do it now?

Mr. President,

If this a policy you strongly believe in, please grow a pair of balls, push for it and get it passed and implemented.

Otherwise, please admit you are a coward and apologize to the country for your cowardice.

Thank You
Your Hater!!


29 posted on 10/10/2009 7:29:01 PM PDT by indianrightwinger
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To: historyrepeatz
Gays in the military? Question the motive.

I don't question their motive at all. It's quite obvious, but not PC to admit, that the motive is definitely not what the queers want us to believe it is. I know that if I were an enlisted man in today's army I would for obvious reasons much prefer quartering in the women's barracks instead of a bunk in the men's barracks. But I'm pretty sure that queer soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen have the exactly opposite idea in regard to their choice of barrack mates.

To tell the truth, at my age I can bunk down almost anywhere that's reasonably comfortable and not miss having a female bunkmate while I'm dozing my way to the G-rated senior-citizen version of dreamland.

30 posted on 10/10/2009 7:57:39 PM PDT by epow (When I married Miss Right I didn't know that "Always" was her first name.)
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To: VU4G10

Can’t Obama just issue an executive order to repeal the policy? As CIC of the military, he can simply tell the Pentagon brass to stop implementing such a policy, no? Why all the talk then? This could have been done five minutes into his administration on a Post-It note.


31 posted on 10/10/2009 8:01:30 PM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: Osage Orange

Whenever he is speaking he equivocates. His rhetoric is just that, rhetoric.

Obama - the empty desk.


33 posted on 10/10/2009 8:49:30 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: VU4G10
We need more gays in the Navy like the British do, so we too can produce pansies like the guy who cried when his iPod was taken by the Iranian sailors who captured him.
34 posted on 10/10/2009 9:13:54 PM PDT by montag813 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell)
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To: Mr. K
[. . .this will cost him far more than he gains.]

Obama is illiterate in history—even recent history. Clinton's attempts caused him no end of trouble.

35 posted on 10/11/2009 12:12:56 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: historyrepeatz

not all of them are ;)


36 posted on 10/11/2009 12:32:55 AM PDT by musicbymuzak
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To: Phillipian

Is he talking about his birth certificate policy?


37 posted on 10/11/2009 12:41:13 AM PDT by willyd (Reducing Taxes Reduces our Carbon Footprint)
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To: Iron Munro

Exactly. Then his “just as powerful” army will begin the enforcement of policy,


38 posted on 10/11/2009 6:26:31 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: VU4G10

Pres__ent 0bama, why don’t you worry about a real military policy: determining the strategy for winning the Afghanistan war (rather than some silly political special interest). You are unworthy to be the commander in chief.


39 posted on 10/11/2009 6:34:14 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: VU4G10
also discussed here
40 posted on 10/11/2009 6:44:07 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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