Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell goes under the bus
The Washington Times this morning reports that Barack Obama wasted no time tossing the DADT promise he made during the campaign aside;
President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military’s decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.
Repealing the ban was an Obama campaign promise. However, Mr. Obama first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus and then present legislation to Congress, the advisers said.
I’m not complaining, mind you, I’m just saying…. So far Obama has tossed the anti-war crowd and women aside and now the gays. I guess the “95% of Americans will get tax cuts” is next. Who would have thought that he’s just another Democrat politician who thinks it’s fine to ignore campaign promises.
Yeah, yeah, I’m pretty sure someone will tell me “they all do it”, however, when George Bush took office he made clear what he was going to do and he did his best to keep to those promises. The tenets of the Contract With America put forward by the Republicans in 1994 were 95% enacted as law. What about the promises of Democrats since 2006? One promise they made they kept – the minimum wage and that triggered the unemployment rate we’re seeing now.
Yet you Democrats keep voting them in hoping they’ll change.
Category: Politics
John the sad thing is most of the consistent democratic voters won’t care. They will vote democrat no matter who is on the ticket or what they say. Alot of the Obama voters don’t have a clue about his platform or any of the promises he made. Alot of people just thought he was the cool candidate to vote for.
Why start a new conspiracy theory? I have it *RIGHT* here!
Obama is a secret closet RethugliKKKan! He’s bringing back Iraqi combat brigades so that he use them to suppress gay people!
Oops! That should have started, “Why not….”
So Obama is going to talk to the joint chiefs of staff to prepare enactable and acceptable legislation before presenting it to Congress and this might take some time… and this is a bad thing?
And Bush ran openly? In 2004? Where he never mentions SS once and then once elected suddenly it’s his chief priority to privatize it?
Do you actually read releases from Congress and the White house or simply make things up for TEH INTERNEETTTZ?
Jonn wrote: Yeah, um privatizing Social Security had been an issue foe Republicans for nearly ten years before 2004. Just because you didn’t hear of it until after 2004, doesn’t mean the rest of us conscious people didn’t know.