White House endorses draft for women
USATODAY reports that the President has endorsed registering women for the draft. A day late and a dollar short;
The White House had previously expressed neutrality on the controversy, but took a position in a statement to USA TODAY on Thursday.
But the timing of Obama’s support makes it mostly symbolic, coming in the final weeks of his presidency and the day before the House will vote on a defense policy bill that strips a Senate-passed provision to add women to Selective Service.
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But Obama believes adding women to the draft would serve two purposes: showing a commitment to gender equality throughout the armed services, and fostering a sense of public service that comes from requiring draft registration as a ritual of adulthood.
What with the transgender issue, I wonder if a person born a man would be able to avoid the draft registration as it currently exists by claiming to identify as a woman.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Obama always waits to make these dramatic pronouncements until there is no danger that they will have any impact on the situation. Ass hat!
“as a ritual of adulthood”….but…but…that PUSSY never served a day! he just served “adultery”, what a p.o.s.!!!
And to prove his sincerity regarding this genderless approach, I suppose both his daughters will be enlisting and not waiting for a national emergency and the draft. Okay, maybe one. Okay, neither. That’s for your daughters, not his.
I have daughters; I don’t want them to be drafted and believe it is a poverty that some women want other women to be in combat units because equality.
That said, if the military is being directed to integrate woman into combat units because of said “equality”, then women must be in the Selective Service as well.
Anything less is privileged benefit without any of the responsibility.
Yep.
“… some women want other women to be in combat units because equality.”
I don’t think that’s what the issue is about. Women want other women to have the OPPORTUNITY to be in combat units, if that is what they desire. Small, but important difference.
I have a daughter too, and while I wouldn’t want her to be drafted, I wouldn’t have any problem if she wanted to join the military. That being said, I am for allowing the draft to be extended to women. Direct combat or not, there are plenty of jobs in the military that women can and have been doing for decades, it’s only fair that they share in the burden. Don’t like it? Then get rid of the draft for everyone.
Of course he endorsed it. He has no dog in the fight. And besides, I’m betting that on Dec. 19, he’ll blow out of town so fast that papers will fly up in his wake.
Actually he has two dogs in the fight… but he was cleverly waited until after his opinion was relevant to try to look decisive.
“two dogs in the fight”
Are you saying “Like mother, like daughters?”
Generally, we hold the high ground by leaving the other folks kids out of our disagreements.
If they are adult, or near-enough, and willingly join the fray, so be it. But otherwise, we should refrain from targeting them.
That’s chickenshit. It was chickenshit when the left did it to the Bush daughters as well.
B. Hussein 0bama, still making himself as irrelevant as he can. I’d rather he just shut up and spend his last days as POTUS piddling around the golf course.
I’ll believe he takes this seriously when the Big 0’s daughters volunteer to serve in the military.
I’d love to see it when the DI gets ahold of those two and starts in on them.
Nice fantasy, but you are dreaming if you think his privileged snowflakes would ever enlist in the military, especially in the USMC.
We’re missing the broader political picture here. The Democratically controlled White House is endorsing women’s rights to be equal to men. The Republican controlled congress is denying them the rights they need to be equal to men, and therefore participating in the war on women. Even the President, who has two daughters, endorses the process so they will be equal to men in every way.
That’s how it’s going to be spun come next election cycle. Mark my words. It’s a last minute attempt to pollute the waters.
^^^^THIS^^^^
If one of our grand daughters wants to follow in their father’s (or grand father’s) career footsteps that would be great. However, as far as anyone serving in the military because they were forced to, no way Jose. Many of you are old enough to remember the Army of Vietnam days and thereafter before the ranks were cleansed. Obama thinks he can create a legacy in these last few weeks of his failed presidency. With apologies to the Chaplin, “fuck him”.
Does anyone here doubt that the purpose of the Left including women in combat units,and proposing including women in any future draft, is bot to -reduce- combat effectiveness and to -reduce- the willingness to employ combat forces?
These are the same idiots that claim “Violence never solved anything.” Ten thousand years of history show otherwise.
If American males are required to register with Selective Service in order to receive federal financial aid for college, then the women should too. That’s equality. You want the benefits, you have to assume the responsibility.
This statement by Occupant, 1600 Penn Ave, Wash DC, is nothing more than an example of the “Stopped Clock Principle” in action.
If there is a legal requirement for draft registration – whether or not there is a draft – it should apply to both genders.
If and when there is a draft, the numbers drafted can be determined by military necessity. And if the previous combat service ban is reinstated, those numbers need not be equal by gender. Military necessity can dictate that, too.
Couldn’t have said it better myself, Hondo. And if there is a draft on, it’ll be according to fitness for position anyway.
Right, it took the Army Corps of Engineers to put the brakes on the DAPL because Obama said it would be better to wait a few weeks and see if the idea of poisoning the water would be easier to deal with as it got colder….kind of like waiting in Flint until kids were already poisoned….great stuff Mr. President, keep up the good work.
Well at least we’ll possibly have this to look forward to in our old age: Chicks with dicks being drafted into Army & USMC Infantry. They’ll make some steely-eyed killers. I can hear them now, responding to: “What is the spirit of the bayonet?”