My, how sweetly toothsome you've made your homophobia is this morning, Causality 777677. And how adroitly you misdirected your partisanship. Oh, you may not "defend" the evil Reagan, who's wife consulted with sooth-sayers in the White House, and you claim you don't "defend" the idiot Bush klan, but then you go on to point out that it was Clinton who instituted "DADT," so HE must be the bigot.
You failed to mention that DADT was the best deal that Republicans would allow that would keep gay folks in the military. The Republicans wanted to root out and remove ALL gay people (as usual) and the Democrats came up with DADT in order to save as many of them as possible from the rampant discrimination exhibited (still) by Republicans. The policy pleased exactly nobody, but at least each side could claim a (small) victory in their own way.
That you would endorse bigotry and the denial of equal rights for all citizens in the name of "reinforcing professionalism" (whatever that means) and "making it easier" on straight folks sorta sounds like you want to cut our noses off to spite our faces. I'm sure it also would have "reinforced professionalism" and "made it easier" on white troops had black people never been allowed to sully the Armed Forces. You'll note the military seemed to have stepped up to the plate on that issue some time ago without much bruhaha. Lo and behold, soldiers actually DO follow the orders of their superiors!
If the troops are "distracted" on the battlefield by thoughts of what other people do "behind closed doors," then something is wrong with the training of those wasting time and endangering their comrads thinking about it when they should be doing their jobs, wouldn't you agree? It is a situation that can be addressed by better training and better command decisions from military brass. To imagine that our military won't or can't do their jobs is an insult to all service members.
Boy, that Meg Whitman, the "I'm no lady" woman who arranged the purchase of SKYPE while she ran roughshod over eBay as its CEO, is now planning to run for Governor of California.
You folks think you have it bad NOW... HA!
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My, how sweetly toothsome you've made your homophobia is this morning, Causality 777677. And how adroitly you misdirected your partisanship. Oh, you may not "defend" the evil Reagan, who's wife consulted with sooth-sayers in the White House, and you claim you don't "defend" the idiot Bush klan, but then you go on to point out that it was Clinton who instituted "DADT," so HE must be the bigot. You failed to mention that DADT was the best deal that Republicans would allow that would keep gay folks in the military. The Republicans wanted to root out and remove ALL gay people (as usual) and the Democrats came up with DADT in order to save as many of them as possible from the rampant discrimination exhibited (still) by Republicans. The policy pleased exactly nobody, but at least each side could claim a (small) victory in their own way. That you would endorse bigotry and the denial of equal rights for all citizens in the name of "reinforcing professionalism" (whatever that means) and "making it easier" on straight folks sorta sounds like you want to cut our noses off to spite our faces. I'm sure it also would have "reinforced professionalism" and "made it easier" on white troops had black people never been allowed to sully the Armed Forces. You'll note the military seemed to have stepped up to the plate on that issue some time ago without much bruhaha. Lo and behold, soldiers actually DO follow the orders of their superiors! If the troops are "distracted" on the battlefield by thoughts of what other people do "behind closed doors," then something is wrong with the training of those wasting time and endangering their comrads thinking about it when they should be doing their jobs, wouldn't you agree? It is a situation that can be addressed by better training and better command decisions from military brass. To imagine that our military won't or can't do their jobs is an insult to all service members.
Boy, that Meg Whitman, the "I'm no lady" woman who arranged the purchase of SKYPE while she ran roughshod over eBay as its CEO, is now planning to run for Governor of California. You folks think you have it bad NOW... HA!