Don’t Don’t Ask, Don’t Don’t Tell
I am a Canadian, so naturally I am endlessly fascinated by and obsessed with American politics.
We are a pro Obama household. There is no debate about that. We do ruminate a bit with the question of Hillary Clinton’s still massive popularity among the voting Democrats. A friend of my wife, who is a Canadian living in the US, told her that he was a Hillary fan. He didn’t expound on his reasoning and we didn’t, at first, make any connection between Hillary’s official stance on some gay rights issues and our gay friend’s approval.
Ironically, Bill Clinton enacted one of the laws that Hillary is criticizing. For the record, Obama and Edwards also favor repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Again, for the record, they do not share a bed with the man who enacted it (of course they wouldn’t tell you if they did).
Should the US remain marred in a war that they should never have started, a future President may have to enact a LA LA LA, I Can’t Hear You!!! policy if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is not repealed.
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For Bill, the don’t ask, don’t tell policy was a concession. He would have rathered allow gays in the military
Comment by T — February 7, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
Obama is much more conservative than you think. He has a record of finding the center. Hillary, on the other hand, is much more liberal than she’s letting on. These things might get lost in the heat of the primaries, but once the elections are over and the dust settles, you’ll find that you can’t change a person’s basic ideology or thinking. That’s why California and New York, which are liberal bastions, went decisively for Hillary, while Obama took the red states.
Comment by Ling — February 8, 2008 @ 2:47 am