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How Gay Leftie Bloggers Spurred Obama to Act on DADT

February 5, 2010 by B. Daniel Blatt

Amidst the frenzy of activity on Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell this week, the folks at AOL asked me to write a piece on the hullabaloo and I decided to tip my hat to bloggers with whom we are often at odds, but who, this time, got one right:

While President Barack Obama’s decision to move forward with the elimination of the military’s much hated “don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy has attracted widespread coverage, the reason behind the sudden push hasn’t.

To be sure, some small efforts were made by the administration months ago toward repeal.

In October, the White House approached Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent congressman well-regarded in the military who has long opposed DADT, about developing a means to lift the ban.

The same month, Kevin Nix, a spokesman for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network — a group that advocates for gay members of the armed forces — welcomed the appointment of retired Marine Gen. Clifford Stanley as undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness as a sign of the administration’s seriousness of purpose to move forward.

Yet, despite these and other rumblings, there was no evidence that the White House had a strategy (or timetable) to effect repeal.

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Filed Under: Blogging, Credit to Democrats, DADT (Don't Ask, Don't Tell), Gays In Military, Obama and Gay Issues

Comments

  1. Tim says

    February 5, 2010 at 6:20 pm - February 5, 2010

    Dan,

    Since no one else is using the space, I would love to see your comment on Carly’s new strategy of dressing people up in Sheep costumes with red demon eyes in campaign ads…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo7HiQRM7BA

  2. B. Daniel Blatt says

    February 5, 2010 at 6:33 pm - February 5, 2010

    You know, Tim, if you showed more respect for my ideas acknowledged those times, like this one, I praise my ideological adversaries, I might respond more readily to your suggestions, as I do to those of my readers who more thoughtfully engage me. They often ask my opinion on a variety of issues.

    From your past comments, I know you’re often at odds with my point of view. Now, here, I praise gay lefties and you don’t even acknowledge what I said. So, I respond to your request in the same manner.

  3. Alex in Denver says

    February 5, 2010 at 7:04 pm - February 5, 2010

    I am happy to see that the left gay community focusing on a gay rights issue apart from marriage, and that they appear to be having success!

  4. Tano says

    February 5, 2010 at 10:29 pm - February 5, 2010

    Aw c’mon Dan. Give us some demon sheep!

  5. ThatGayConservative says

    February 6, 2010 at 1:50 am - February 6, 2010

    What? You guys can’t argue with this so you have to change the subject to something you think you can?

    Damnable garbage, both of you.

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