Comments on: Obama, Congressional leaders meet on DADT

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:40:02 +0000

Yeah, I don’t think we are in disagreement.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:22:30 +0000

Tim, read my comment again. I think it’s rather clear what I’m talking about.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:08:01 +0000

Jason,

I believe you are mistaken and that prior to 1993, the gay ban was an administrative policy, not a law.

If you know otherwise, please provide a link to that law.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:46:01 +0000

Rob,
There’s a law on the books with the military which bans gays from serving in the military PERIOD. This law(rule, policy, whatever) pre-dates DADT.

DADT was actually supposed to be a compromise as Clinton was preparing to end the ban altogether.

By: cd

cd — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:34:59 +0000

The Obama people had better be sure they know the conclusions of this “study” already.

By: Rob in San diego

Rob in San diego — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:24:54 +0000

“……and certify that the new law can be implemented without a negative impact on military readiness, recruitment and retention, according to the sources.”

REALLY? Did anyone think to ask that very same question when they invented DADT and started kicking out highly trained professionals with the necessary skills to keep this country safe? No sadly to say they never thought about that. Now were full of empty headed homophobic soldiers who have replaced the highly skilled gay officers. In fact, didn’t we even have to lower the standards of what it takes to become enlisted over the last 8 years because we needed to fill the positions of those that they’ve kicked out?

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:50:50 +0000

Marcelle,

Drat those acronyms!! :)

It has been fixed

By: Burr

Burr — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:42:41 +0000

This is idiotic cowardice. Democrats are going to lose because of a bajillion other reasons. Sabotaging a DADT repeal is not going to endear them to independents or conservatives.

By: Ben in Oakland

Ben in Oakland — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:18:17 +0000

So, in short, they will repeal DADT, but let the pentagon decide what it wants to do. sort of the domestic partnership (just the same as marriage, except that it isn’t).

that way they can say they repealed it, but can tell the conservatives they left it in place. Not their fualt any more. sort of like an barely adult version of simon says.

Do they think we’re total idiots? What happened to the common meaning of the promises Obama made in is SOTU speech?

Our Fierce Advocate My Ass.

By: Marcelle Wyzdyx

Marcelle Wyzdyx — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:15:37 +0000

This is a bit confusing; the headline says DOMA, but the story seems to be about DADT.