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		<title>By: Chris Vosburg</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203427</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Vosburg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I assume your comment refers to Steve Clemons. Why is &quot;simple&quot; a problem for him?

Right, why&#039;d I ask.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I assume your comment refers to Steve Clemons. Why is &#8220;simple&#8221; a problem for him?</p>
<p>Right, why&#8217;d I ask.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Vosburg</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203414</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Vosburg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, an egomaniac, no doubt. His signature is so big and overwheming, that it actually obscures the word &quot;commitment&quot; just above it, somehow white-outing the lower portion of it.

Skeptics might say that this calls the veracity of the document into question, but not you, darlin, you will eat what you are told to eat; good girl.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, an egomaniac, no doubt. His signature is so big and overwheming, that it actually obscures the word &#8220;commitment&#8221; just above it, somehow white-outing the lower portion of it.</p>
<p>Skeptics might say that this calls the veracity of the document into question, but not you, darlin, you will eat what you are told to eat; good girl.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Vosburg</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203405</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Vosburg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m a Linda too writes: &lt;i&gt;Obama is such a Weasel and Coward. He doesn’t want to remove Don’t Ask Don’t tell&lt;/i&gt; 

And then, with her bare face hanging out, reproduces this newspaper article text:&lt;i&gt;Obama, who pledged during the campaign to overturn the law, does not want to ask lawmakers to do so until the military has completed a comprehensive assessment of the impact that such a move would have on military discipline. Then, &lt;b&gt;the president hopes to be able to make a case to members of both parties that overturning the 1993 law would be in the best interest of national security.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.

If you&#039;re going to lie, darlin, take a tip from compulsive liars posting here and do it right: for heaven&#039;s sakes, don&#039;t link to or provide text that clearly rebuts your bullshit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a Linda too writes: <i>Obama is such a Weasel and Coward. He doesn’t want to remove Don’t Ask Don’t tell</i> </p>
<p>And then, with her bare face hanging out, reproduces this newspaper article text:<i>Obama, who pledged during the campaign to overturn the law, does not want to ask lawmakers to do so until the military has completed a comprehensive assessment of the impact that such a move would have on military discipline. Then, <b>the president hopes to be able to make a case to members of both parties that overturning the 1993 law would be in the best interest of national security.</b></i>.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re going to lie, darlin, take a tip from compulsive liars posting here and do it right: for heaven&#8217;s sakes, don&#8217;t link to or provide text that clearly rebuts your bullshit.</p>
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		<title>By: lorac</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203263</link>
		<dc:creator>lorac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 20:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent phrase!</description>
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		<title>By: lorac</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203255</link>
		<dc:creator>lorac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 20:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, to be fair, it involves a lot more than simply saying your sexual preference directly.  You spend 40 hours a week with your co-workers, and if you&#039;re military overseas, you spend 24 hrs. a day with them.  A straight person routinely says, &quot;my girlfriend sent me a card&quot;, or, &quot;My boyfriend and I went to see a good movie&quot;.  In order to &quot;not tell&quot;, a gay person has to hide a lot of their life, edit a lot of their everyday language, that straight people don&#039;t. 

Imagine having to go through every day making absolutely sure you don&#039;t mention the most important person in your life, your social activities, etc.  People at work routinely share their social life as part of casual conversation - the gay person in the military has to always be alert to hide things, while at the same time not appear to be rude, or anti-social.  It&#039;s a big job &quot;not to tell&quot; - it&#039;s not as simple as just not declaring one&#039;s sexuality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, to be fair, it involves a lot more than simply saying your sexual preference directly.  You spend 40 hours a week with your co-workers, and if you&#8217;re military overseas, you spend 24 hrs. a day with them.  A straight person routinely says, &#8220;my girlfriend sent me a card&#8221;, or, &#8220;My boyfriend and I went to see a good movie&#8221;.  In order to &#8220;not tell&#8221;, a gay person has to hide a lot of their life, edit a lot of their everyday language, that straight people don&#8217;t. </p>
<p>Imagine having to go through every day making absolutely sure you don&#8217;t mention the most important person in your life, your social activities, etc.  People at work routinely share their social life as part of casual conversation &#8211; the gay person in the military has to always be alert to hide things, while at the same time not appear to be rude, or anti-social.  It&#8217;s a big job &#8220;not to tell&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s not as simple as just not declaring one&#8217;s sexuality.</p>
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		<title>By: foxyladi14</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203223</link>
		<dc:creator>foxyladi14</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 19:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>he can&#039;t do simple.it has to be complicated</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>he can&#8217;t do simple.it has to be complicated</p>
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		<title>By: foxyladi14</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203218</link>
		<dc:creator>foxyladi14</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 19:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CORRECT....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CORRECT&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: kc</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203140</link>
		<dc:creator>kc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 17:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It easy to bow, hard to stand up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It easy to bow, hard to stand up.</p>
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		<title>By: DADT Is Alive And Well; DOMA, Too : NO QUARTER</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203088</link>
		<dc:creator>DADT Is Alive And Well; DOMA, Too : NO QUARTER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 15:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] linguist recently (H/T to American Girl in Italy), as Steve Clemons mentioned in his post, &#8220;Do Obama&#8217;s Private Promises on Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell Matter?&#8220;). Below is an interesting history of how the act came to [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] linguist recently (H/T to American Girl in Italy), as Steve Clemons mentioned in his post, &#8220;Do Obama&#8217;s Private Promises on Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell Matter?&#8220;). Below is an interesting history of how the act came to [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Vosburg</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1203046</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Vosburg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 11:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Including the text of the letter that Obama is replying to would seem to be in order.

Why do you not do this simple thing? 

Right, why&#039;d I ask.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Including the text of the letter that Obama is replying to would seem to be in order.</p>
<p>Why do you not do this simple thing? </p>
<p>Right, why&#8217;d I ask.</p>
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		<title>By: Fredster</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1202996</link>
		<dc:creator>Fredster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 05:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Although it will take some time to complete (partly because it needs Congressional action&lt;/i&gt;

That is &lt;strong&gt;BULLSHIT&lt;/strong&gt;!  He could end it by executive order the way Truman ended segregation in the military before.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Although it will take some time to complete (partly because it needs Congressional action</i></p>
<p>That is <strong>BULLSHIT</strong>!  He could end it by executive order the way Truman ended segregation in the military before.</p>
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		<title>By: socalannie</title>
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		<dc:creator>socalannie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting points.  I also thought it was weird that his signature is so much bigger than the rest of the writing.  When I write a letter, I start it below the letterhead &amp; my signature does not dominate the page.  What an egomaniac he must be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting points.  I also thought it was weird that his signature is so much bigger than the rest of the writing.  When I write a letter, I start it below the letterhead &amp; my signature does not dominate the page.  What an egomaniac he must be.</p>
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		<title>By: I'm a Linda too</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1202982</link>
		<dc:creator>I'm a Linda too</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 03:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of promises,  THIS is rich.


Barack Obama&#039;s rich supporters fear his tax plans show he&#039;s a class warrior
Some of Barack Obama&#039;s richest supporters fear they have elected a &quot;class warrior&quot; to the White House, who will turn America&#039;s freewheeling capitalism into a more regulated European system. 
 

By Leonard Doyle in Washington 
Last Updated: 7:33PM BST 09 May 2009
Barack Obama: some of his rich supporters fear he is becoming a class warrior Photo: AP 

Wealthy Wall Street financiers and other business figures provided crucial support for Mr Obama during the election, backing him over the Republican candidate John McCain as the right leader to rescue the collapsing US economy. 

But it is now dawning on many among them that Mr Obama was serious about his campaign trail promises to bring root and branch reform to corporate America - and that they were more than just election rhetoric. 
 


A top Obama fundraiser and hedge fund manager said: &quot;I&#039;m appalled at the anti-Wall Street rhetoric. It was OK on the campaign but now it&#039;s the real world. I&#039;m surprised that Obama is turning out to be so left-wing. He&#039;s a real class warrior.&quot; 

Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute, a free enterprise think tank, said Democrats in Congress were unnerved by the president&#039;s latest plan to raise $210 billion over 10 years from multinational corporations. 


...&lt;em&gt;Rahm Emanuel, the president&#039;s tough-as-nails chief of staff, has coined a phrase which has become a mantra for the administration. &quot;Rule one,&quot; he declared, &quot;Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.&quot; &lt;/em&gt;

Warren Buffet, the wealthy investor regarded by Americans as an economic seer, is among high profile Obama supporters worried that he is attempting too much by pressing ahead with other controversial reforms such as healthcare. 

&quot;Job one is to win the war, the economic war, job two is to win the economic war, and job three,&quot; he said recently. &quot;You can&#039;t expect people to unite behind you if you&#039;re trying to jam a whole bunch of things down their throat.&quot;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5301078/Barack-Obamas-rich-supporters-fear-his-tax-plans-show-hes-a-class-warrior.html

and

Obama to Propose More Taxes From Estates, Firms to Fund Health Care Reform
The measures total $60 million, but administration officials describe the plan as eliminating &#039;tax loopholes&#039; rather than hiking taxes 

By The Wall Street Journal



WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will propose $60 billion in new tax increases over 10 years on wealthy estates, businesses and others to make up for shortfalls in its fund to pay for an expensive overhaul of the health-care system.

The measures go beyond plans the White House has announced in the past few weeks. Officials said that upon further analysis they realized that they had overestimated savings and tax increases proposed in February to help pay the bill.

...How to pay for a health-care overhaul estimated to cost more than a trillion dollars over a decade is one of the trickiest questions facing the administration and Congress. The White House has proposed a combination of health-care spending cuts and tax increases.

In February, the administration identified $634 billion over 10 years to set aside in a health-care &quot;reserve fund,&quot; enough to cover about half the total cost. The money would be needed to pay for new subsidies to help people buy insurance, among other things.

The cuts to government health-care spending are controversial because they mean lower payments for various providers, and they are not expected to raise anywhere near enough money to pay the full tab.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124183390482402969.html


...uh oh, here we go throwing seniors under the bus!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of promises,  THIS is rich.</p>
<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s rich supporters fear his tax plans show he&#8217;s a class warrior<br />
Some of Barack Obama&#8217;s richest supporters fear they have elected a &#8220;class warrior&#8221; to the White House, who will turn America&#8217;s freewheeling capitalism into a more regulated European system. </p>
<p>By Leonard Doyle in Washington<br />
Last Updated: 7:33PM BST 09 May 2009<br />
Barack Obama: some of his rich supporters fear he is becoming a class warrior Photo: AP </p>
<p>Wealthy Wall Street financiers and other business figures provided crucial support for Mr Obama during the election, backing him over the Republican candidate John McCain as the right leader to rescue the collapsing US economy. </p>
<p>But it is now dawning on many among them that Mr Obama was serious about his campaign trail promises to bring root and branch reform to corporate America &#8211; and that they were more than just election rhetoric. </p>
<p>A top Obama fundraiser and hedge fund manager said: &#8220;I&#8217;m appalled at the anti-Wall Street rhetoric. It was OK on the campaign but now it&#8217;s the real world. I&#8217;m surprised that Obama is turning out to be so left-wing. He&#8217;s a real class warrior.&#8221; </p>
<p>Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute, a free enterprise think tank, said Democrats in Congress were unnerved by the president&#8217;s latest plan to raise $210 billion over 10 years from multinational corporations. </p>
<p>&#8230;<em>Rahm Emanuel, the president&#8217;s tough-as-nails chief of staff, has coined a phrase which has become a mantra for the administration. &#8220;Rule one,&#8221; he declared, &#8220;Never allow a crisis to go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things.&#8221; </em></p>
<p>Warren Buffet, the wealthy investor regarded by Americans as an economic seer, is among high profile Obama supporters worried that he is attempting too much by pressing ahead with other controversial reforms such as healthcare. </p>
<p>&#8220;Job one is to win the war, the economic war, job two is to win the economic war, and job three,&#8221; he said recently. &#8220;You can&#8217;t expect people to unite behind you if you&#8217;re trying to jam a whole bunch of things down their throat.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5301078/Barack-Obamas-rich-supporters-fear-his-tax-plans-show-hes-a-class-warrior.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5301078/Barack-Obamas-rich-supporters-fear-his-tax-plans-show-hes-a-class-warrior.html</a></p>
<p>and</p>
<p>Obama to Propose More Taxes From Estates, Firms to Fund Health Care Reform<br />
The measures total $60 million, but administration officials describe the plan as eliminating &#8216;tax loopholes&#8217; rather than hiking taxes </p>
<p>By The Wall Street Journal</p>
<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Obama administration will propose $60 billion in new tax increases over 10 years on wealthy estates, businesses and others to make up for shortfalls in its fund to pay for an expensive overhaul of the health-care system.</p>
<p>The measures go beyond plans the White House has announced in the past few weeks. Officials said that upon further analysis they realized that they had overestimated savings and tax increases proposed in February to help pay the bill.</p>
<p>&#8230;How to pay for a health-care overhaul estimated to cost more than a trillion dollars over a decade is one of the trickiest questions facing the administration and Congress. The White House has proposed a combination of health-care spending cuts and tax increases.</p>
<p>In February, the administration identified $634 billion over 10 years to set aside in a health-care &#8220;reserve fund,&#8221; enough to cover about half the total cost. The money would be needed to pay for new subsidies to help people buy insurance, among other things.</p>
<p>The cuts to government health-care spending are controversial because they mean lower payments for various providers, and they are not expected to raise anywhere near enough money to pay the full tab.</p>
<p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124183390482402969.html" rel="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124183390482402969.html</a></p>
<p>&#8230;uh oh, here we go throwing seniors under the bus!</p>
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		<title>By: I'm a Linda too</title>
		<link>http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/24007/do-obamas-private-promises-on-dont-ask-dont-tell-matter/#comment-1202978</link>
		<dc:creator>I'm a Linda too</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 03:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>sorry for the garbage, didn&#039;t see it</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sorry for the garbage, didn&#8217;t see it</p>
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		<title>By: I'm a Linda too</title>
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		<dc:creator>I'm a Linda too</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 03:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sure, but it&#039;s like everything else with Obama, he says anything for the moment and blames others for any perceived negative action and still does what he has wanted..

Obama talks out of every orifice he has.  He already backtracked from his campaign promise and gave two different stances since then.  First he backtracked from his campaign promise to repeal &quot;Don&#039;t Ask Don&#039;t Tell&quot;, then he said he was going to let the &quot;military Commanders determine what is best for them&quot;. THEN he came out with he wants Congress to address this.  And now he&#039;s blaming Congress for why it might not happen.

Obama is such a Weasel and Coward.  He doesn&#039;t want to remove Don&#039;t Ask Don&#039;t tell and now he&#039;s blaming Congress for what they knew was a problem for Clinton trying to open the military to Gays, which is how he came up with this policy.

..&lt;strong&gt;.What&#039;s this, another position, different from this note?&lt;/strong&gt;


&lt;blockquote&gt;Obama seeks assessment on gays in military
No rush to repeal &#039;don&#039;t ask, don&#039;t tell&#039;
By Bryan Bender 
Globe Staff / February 1, 2009 


WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is telling the Pentagon and gay-rights advocates that it will have to study the implications for national security and enlist more support in Congress before trying to overturn the so-called &quot;don&#039;t ask, don&#039;t tell&quot; law and allow gays to serve openly in the military, according to people involved in the discussions.
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They said Obama, who pledged during the campaign to overturn the law, does not want to ask lawmakers to do so until the military has completed a comprehensive assessment of the impact that such a move would have on military discipline. Then, the president hopes to be able to make a case to members of both parties that overturning the 1993 law would be in the best interest of national security.

Obama is hoping to avoid the missteps of the Clinton administration when it tried to open the ranks to gays and lesbians, only to be confronted by fierce resistance from lawmakers and commanders. Early in his presidency, Bill Clinton signed an order allowing gays to serve but was forced to back off. A compromise made it illegal for gays to serve openly, but also restricted investigations into service members&#039; sexual behavior.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sure, but it&#8217;s like everything else with Obama, he says anything for the moment and blames others for any perceived negative action and still does what he has wanted..</p>
<p>Obama talks out of every orifice he has.  He already backtracked from his campaign promise and gave two different stances since then.  First he backtracked from his campaign promise to repeal &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221;, then he said he was going to let the &#8220;military Commanders determine what is best for them&#8221;. THEN he came out with he wants Congress to address this.  And now he&#8217;s blaming Congress for why it might not happen.</p>
<p>Obama is such a Weasel and Coward.  He doesn&#8217;t want to remove Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t tell and now he&#8217;s blaming Congress for what they knew was a problem for Clinton trying to open the military to Gays, which is how he came up with this policy.</p>
<p>..<strong>.What&#8217;s this, another position, different from this note?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Obama seeks assessment on gays in military<br />
No rush to repeal &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217;<br />
By Bryan Bender<br />
Globe Staff / February 1, 2009 </p>
<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The Obama administration is telling the Pentagon and gay-rights advocates that it will have to study the implications for national security and enlist more support in Congress before trying to overturn the so-called &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; law and allow gays to serve openly in the military, according to people involved in the discussions.<br />
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<p>They said Obama, who pledged during the campaign to overturn the law, does not want to ask lawmakers to do so until the military has completed a comprehensive assessment of the impact that such a move would have on military discipline. Then, the president hopes to be able to make a case to members of both parties that overturning the 1993 law would be in the best interest of national security.</p>
<p>Obama is hoping to avoid the missteps of the Clinton administration when it tried to open the ranks to gays and lesbians, only to be confronted by fierce resistance from lawmakers and commanders. Early in his presidency, Bill Clinton signed an order allowing gays to serve but was forced to back off. A compromise made it illegal for gays to serve openly, but also restricted investigations into service members&#8217; sexual behavior.
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