Obama Shafts Gays
Promises to end “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” How do they know he’s full of it? His lips were moving. New York Times:
“I will end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ ” Mr. Obama told an audience of nearly 3,000 people at a fund-raising dinner for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay advocacy group. “That is my commitment to you.”
The president’s emphatic declaration, on the eve of a major gay rights rally here, brought a huge roar from the crowd at the star-studded black-tie dinner, where tickets cost as much as $1,000 and entertainment was provided by the singer Lady Gaga and the cast of the new Fox comedy “Glee.” But outside the room, the president’s words met with a chillier reception.
Bil Browning, a blogger for Bilerico Project, a Web site aimed at a gay audience, said moments after the speech ended that the site was flooded with critical comments by people who said they had heard nothing new. “I could have watched one of his old campaign speeches and heard the same thing,” one wrote.
It’s dawn over Provincetown. Pick your issue. Lots of talk, not so much walk. Good thing, considering most of his positions. As for Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, he’s got a pretty good excuse, which is that middle of a hot war is not the best time to start social engineering the military. He’s too busy trying to figure out how to screw up the actual war stuff. Not to dictate to the LGBT crowd, but given his political displays to date, is this the guy you want advancing your cause?
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:10 am on Sunday, October 11, 2009
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October 11th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden: It’s dawn over Provincetown. Pick your issue. Lots of talk, not so much walk. Good thing, considering most of his positions. As for Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, he’s got a pretty good excuse, which is that middle of a hot war is not the best time to start social engineering the military. He’s too busy trying to figure out how to screw up the actual war stuff. Not to dictate to the LGBT crowd, but given his political displays to date, is this the guy you want advancing your cause? [...]
October 12th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
[...] left that the continual campaign mode of Mr Obama is not indicative of any actual accomplishments. Jules Crittenden takes it all in and opines: It’s dawn over Provincetown. Pick your issue. Lots of talk, not so much walk. Good [...]