Obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
#1Obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 12:16pm
President Obama will end the 15-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented homosexual and bisexual men and women from serving openly within the U.S. military, a spokesman for the president-elect said.
Obama said during the campaign that he opposed the policy, but since his election in November he has made statements that have been interpreted as backpedaling. On Friday, however, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, responding on the transition team's Web site to a Michigan resident who asked if the new administration planned to get rid of the policy, said:
"You don't hear politicians give a one-word answer much. But it's 'Yes.' "
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#2obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 12:24pm
i hope this isn't like those pesky aides who kept making it look like obama had taken a stand that he really hadn't unless he had would be clarified at a later date...maybe.
i hope he has finally found some good help
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#2re: Obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 12:25pm
What about troop morale? If what my Marine friends tell me is true, troop morale is much higher when they get away with naughty things for which they could get in trouble. It's much more arousing and fun. Without the threat of public discipline, morale will sink and it could threaten national security.
Ask yourselves: what about troop morale?
#3obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 12:46pmclearly that's a morass he's willing to ford. amybe.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#4obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 12:57pmI find it interesting that this announcement is coming out just as they found documentation that he supported gay marriage.
#5obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 7:22pmI will join the Navy if this happens :)
Q
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#6obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 8:37pm
Interestingly (to me, anyway,) my initial response is one that I learned from my time in the military.
I'll believe it when I see it - not til then.
#7obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:30pm
papa, is morass really an appropriate thing to be talking about in this thread?
Edit, nevermind, now that I think about, morass is exactly what this thread needs. and well, the military needs it too.
Updated On: 1/14/09 at 09:30 PM
#8obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:34pmAn unnamed Obama aide told me off the record that Barack thinks you're annoying.
#9obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:41pmObama told me he thinks you need your adult undergarment changed.
#10obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 10:12pmThe unnamed aide said, strictly off the record, that Barack said you collected them. He said that's why the campaign called you "Stinky."
Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#11obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 10:13pmI call Kringas Mr. Stinky.
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#12obama will end 'don't ask' policy, aide says
Posted: 1/14/09 at 11:54pm
He'll end Don't Ask Don't Tell, but is still currently opposed to same-sex marriage.
He'd rather see us dead than married. What a guy.
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