I can tell you what the president is going to tell his [gay] audience tomorrow: How much he supports them. How much he agrees with them. And how he wishes he was President so he could help them out. But here's the thing about being president. There isn't a lot you can do without either Congress, Oprah or Goldman Sachs behind you. But there is one thing the president can do with the stroke of a pen: He can let gays serve openly in the military. It's called an executive order.
President Barack Obama wowed a crowd of gay rights activists Saturday night with an impassioned defense of equality for gays and lesbians, but he offered no new commitments to assuage concerns that he has given a low priority to issues critical to the gay and lesbian community.[...]
"We should not be punishing patriotic Americans who have stepped forward to serve this country. We should be celebrating their willingness," Obama said. "I’m working with the Pentagon and its leadership and members of the House and Senate on ending this policy…I will end don’t ask don’t tell. That’s my commitment to you" he said to a raucous ovation.
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But while emphatically renewing his pledge to end the military’s ban on openly gay soldiers and sailors, Obama gave no timetable for making the change, and no promise to put an immediate stop to discharges based on sexual orientation.
"I will end 'don't ask, don't tell,'" the President said. "That's my commitment to you."
Well, dude, at the rate things are going, you only have three years, so you’d better step it up. (And that’s if you don’t get killed or impeached.)
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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