Gawker 
Enter your username and password.
New York, 7:47 AM
Sun Dec 6
14 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip Your Editors:
Tipline: 646-214-8138
Editor-in-Chief:
Gabriel Snyder |
West Coast Editor:
Richard Rushfield |
Contributing Editors:
Valleywag:
Ryan Tate |
Media:
Hamilton Nolan |
Politics:
Alex Pareene |
Investigations:
John Cook |
Entertainment:
Brian Moylan |
Nights:
Adrian Chen |
Azaria Jagger |
Ravi Somaiya |
Weekends:
Foster Kamer |
Video Editor:
Richard Blakeley |
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
10/11/09
Anyone? I know some of you follow this closely.
10/11/09
I personally think he should suspend the law, but that's open for discussion. The legal possibilities available to him as Commander-in-Chief are not open to discussion.
Here's a very accurate article that explains his power in readily accessible prose. http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:-YCKHbce8tsJ:www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-belkin/obama-to-fire-his-first-g_b_199070.html+can+obama+end+don%27t+ask+don%27t+tell+executive+order&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
10/11/09
10/11/09
10/11/09
Likewise Obama's not been one to flat out use tools like executive orders to get his way like Bush was. I have a feeling while he will push to end it, he will leave an executive order as something of a last resort.
10/11/09
I wish people will give him his 4 years to fulfill those promises instead of a few months.
10/11/09
10/11/09
An executive order would only make the politicians lazy about legally repealing the LAW. It is a law, which means it is required by congress to overturn.
10/11/09
Sorry if you don't like that.
10/10/09
10/10/09
he just talks. in fairness, i didn't listen to the speech (nor will i). i will take everyone's word that it was magnificent. i got tired of his bloated rhetoric last year. at this point i could care less what he has to say. i want to see things done.
he is a liberal democrat with a democratic house and a democratic senate (both with liberal democratic leadership). if not now, then when? he needs to grow a pair and shove his agenda down the throats of america. if the republicans had the white house and congress they would not hesitate to do exactly as they pleased. they would enact every reactionary, corporatist, civil rights shredding law they saw fit.
the dems picked the wrong candidate. too late of course. fucking excellent.
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/11/09
10/10/09
It really is a powerful moment in not just gay history, but American history, to have a President address gay issues so directly, supportively, sometimes movingly, sometimes humorously. Gaga!
Obama blows me away again tonight.
10/10/09
10/11/09
I am and I'm sick of being a second class citizen. If I can't have all of the privileges of every other US citizen, then please lower my taxes. I'm sick of paying for other people's kids to attend school, for subsiding health care, for assisting married folks who get tax breaks and some more stuff I can't think of right now.
Talk is cheap and until Obama takes action on the things he mentioned tonight, then I'm not holding my breath.
10/11/09
10/11/09
10/11/09
10/11/09
10/10/09
They don't give Nobel Prizes for promises. Oh, wait...
10/10/09
Also: if we're going to say to gay recruits, "here's your rifle, Iraq's that way," could we also legalize gay marriage? That way their partners could at least inherit what few possessions they have when they get blown in half by an IED.
10/10/09
10/10/09
He should enlist Rahm to scare the bejeezus out of errant Democrats. As for the Republicans? He should tell them to fuck off and remind them - again! - that he won.
10/10/09
Is ever going to carry out ANY of his campaign --and subsequent-- promises?
10/10/09
10/10/09
I'm ecstatic he's doing this, as it's about time and it needed to be done, but why announce this now? Couldn't he wait, I dunno, another month or so? He can barely get Democrats to toe the line on health care - this gives them, especially the ones up for re-election in 2010, another reason to push back on his initiatives.
Sigh. Who are the next batch of crazies this announcement will bring forth?
10/10/09
Yeah, but he still didn't announce he was introducing any legislation. It's the usual Obama trust-me sweet-talk.
10/11/09
For more information, read this:
[www.huffingtonpost.com]
(this professor devotes most of his research to DADT)
and www.palmcenter.org
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
I applaud him for working to end this barbaric policy, but I just really want to see some specifics.
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
10/10/09
*If you weren't being sarcastic, please disregard my comment and accept my apologies*
10/10/09
10/10/09
Of course, this group probably has a lot of overlap with the group that get's angry every time their thoughts stray onto the fact that gay people do in fact exist, but I digress.
10/10/09
The biggest issue is the President cant just repeal a law. Someone from congress has to get a bill through to remove it.
10/10/09
10/10/09
06/17/09
Is it really the case that the best gays and lesbians can expect from Obama is having their civil rights meted out to them a bit at a time, only when someone bigoted jackass does something that embarrasses the administration?
06/17/09
listen, i am the biggest fag hag out there but please stop with the "fall(ing) short" shit.
there are men and women fighting a WAR in iraq. a real war, not a cultural one. one in which they can DIE at anytime.
we are all going fucking BROKE because of a lack of financial regulation and responsibility.
the time will come when the obama administration can turn to domestic affairs in a more complete way.
this is POLITICS. i hate to break it to you, but he needs to assert himself more and start securing his second term (which will be better for ALL of us - gay or NOT) before he can wholeheartedly endorse gay marriage.
he is doing more than any other president to ensure rights for gay couples and that should be revered as a milestone.
if new yorkers are really pissed about gay marriage, they should focus their anger on our pathetic, paid-off senate. they're selfishness is the reason gays still can't marry here.
06/17/09
06/17/09
06/17/09
he needs to assert himself more and start securing his second term (which will be better for ALL of us - gay or NOT) before he can wholeheartedly endorse gay marriage.
As Martin Luther King, Jr. may have famously said, "If not now, when?"
Check this out for more:
[www.salon.com]