Obama Steals Clinton's DADT Hypocrisy
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To review: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is a federal statute, an act of Congress. It will take an act of Congress to repeal it. It is therefore the role of members of Congress — representatives and senators — to repeal it.
A bill — the Military Readiness Enhancement Act — has been languishing in the House for years. No companion bill exists in the Senate, for the pesky reason that no sitting senator is willing to sponsor it.
Hillary Clinton is a sitting senator.
Barack Obama is a sitting senator.
So, when either suggests, as Obama is doing now, that they will work as president to end DADT, when they have done exactly nothing on the matter as senator, the only sane response from a gay Democrat is to spit in their face, just like the candidates have been spitting in the face of gay Democrats throughout their respective tenures in the Senate. Tit-for-tat (or, if you prefer, "do unto others").
The fact that Clinton is an order of magnitude more loathsome than Obama regarding DADT due to: (1) her co-conspirator status on the matter during her eight years of service in her pervert husband's administration, and (2) her current membership on the Senate Armed Services Committee (i.e., where the MREA would be debated) is beside the point. The point is that when Obama jumps on the "when I'm president..." bandwagon, he too is being a disingenuous, despicable moral defective.
Plus ça change...
A bill — the Military Readiness Enhancement Act — has been languishing in the House for years. No companion bill exists in the Senate, for the pesky reason that no sitting senator is willing to sponsor it.
Hillary Clinton is a sitting senator.
Barack Obama is a sitting senator.
So, when either suggests, as Obama is doing now, that they will work as president to end DADT, when they have done exactly nothing on the matter as senator, the only sane response from a gay Democrat is to spit in their face, just like the candidates have been spitting in the face of gay Democrats throughout their respective tenures in the Senate. Tit-for-tat (or, if you prefer, "do unto others").
The fact that Clinton is an order of magnitude more loathsome than Obama regarding DADT due to: (1) her co-conspirator status on the matter during her eight years of service in her pervert husband's administration, and (2) her current membership on the Senate Armed Services Committee (i.e., where the MREA would be debated) is beside the point. The point is that when Obama jumps on the "when I'm president..." bandwagon, he too is being a disingenuous, despicable moral defective.
Plus ça change...
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10 April 2008
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