"In a video obtained by BuzzFeed via a Freedom of Information Act request, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp revealed that Obama was unwilling to compromise with service leaders over DADT during a meeting in 2010. “We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ I cannot divulge everything he said to us, that’s private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn’t agree with it — if any of us didn’t agree with it — we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things,” he said."

So much for all the whining about President Obama and DADT.

Don't Ask Don't Tell was the worst thing to do. It is a horrible piece of legislation that was passed to appeal to Christian fundamentalist bigotry and should have been repealed a decade ago. Same thing with the "Defense Of Marriage Act" - denying basic freedoms is not American and certainly not constitutional.

Gays were routinely arrested, jailed, and given dishonorable discharges. DADT was a HUGE improvement over what had been. Christian fundamentalist fought against it tooth and nail.

I was going to say the same thing; DADT was bad, but it was a whole lot better than what was there before.

Their mindset should be "follow orders or face charges".

Good on you Mr. President.

... where the military removes and executes the person giving the unliked orders. That is NOT a novel concept.

Not sayin' it should happen here, of course.

I spent my entire career with the military, primarily working with high ranking officers. The ideas of a coup or other extra Constitutional actions are really outside the thought process of almost all officers and NCOs.

they're holding out hope.............

little or even no military background, so long as they are good students of the issues.

Yes he did!

Congratulations!





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posted. It was posted in the LGBT forum but after a couple of hours I couldn't resist.

Well I think you should post more! Great OP!

Oh, yea, you noticed that the positive on Obama is a little slow to move. Some prefer spin with their glass of whine~

Not me~

it made it to the GP but then kind of sunk which often happens with positive stories.

to the LGBTQ community...and, of course, good news about the Prez.

It's important we get the right one in office though, as you know from us having lived through the Bush/Cheney years.

..... need I say more. Progress comes from voting for progress. Get out the vote in 2014 ---- please --- help out your local Democratic Party

on DU, republicans and teabaggers. In their minds, the President is all too willing to bend with the wind.

doing it.

"center -right" President.

Thanks for posting this!

one of the worst moderate Republicans I have ever seen in my life.

Said that Obama was a Marxist, a socialist, a fascist and an anarchist. Leaving aside the obvious fact that Obama is none of these, three of the four are mutually exclusive.

I keep saying that ignorance of history, politics, economics and the real world are helpful to conservatives (and are required of libertarians).

Not sure I'd call that particular stance gutsy...just consistent with a president determined to move the ball a few inches. I'm just glad he did it at all.

Really, really gutsy would have been telling the media what he was up to in similar terms--but that might not have been smart. Sometimes a little bit of chess really is the most productive way.

Is Fox Gnu's wrong? ;0

He's weak, and a dictator.

...always black.

the next person who calls Obama weak, or any other awful names, I am going to laugh at their small pee brain idiotcy and ask them what They did compared to this strength and courage it took for the President to say this. And this is just One Thing, among many.

yeeehaaaa.

Those Presidents include Carter, Kennedy, Truman, and FDR.

Shocking. And all this time I thought I could shark him at pool...

put to bed the myth that President Obama is a feckless leader?

Seems that he has no problem asserting his authority over those that he ... you know ... has authority over.

understand is that it isn't personal for critics of the administration. We take the issues as they come. When the admin works as we hope and expect. Pat on the back, that's the guy I voted for. We don't complain just to hear ourselves bitch. We complain to let people in the bubble know that thier allies are displeased with off-the-mark actions and we will not suffer it quietly.

do it. This happens to be the rare story not very susceptible to that.

full of yourself you sound?

And rec, of course!

think Obama will go down as one of the greats
because of Equal Rights & ACA

not happy about everything, whine, whine, whine and more wine
but we know what he has been up against....
we happy with our vote for him, especially considering the alternatives

peace,
kp

I love it!

He's so weak - er - wha...?