Obama's right - we must go slow on repealing DADT

[MannyGoldstein]

We don't want a repeat of what happened when Truman desegregated the Army overnight. Remember how that went?

[Unvanguard]

1. Truman by no means desegregated the Army "overnight"

and, in any case, the situation was different because there was no Congressional statute.

There is plenty of room to complain about Obama's record on DADT without drawing poor analogies.

[JeffR]

2. No, it's exactly the same. There's not a whit of difference.

Manny said so.

It has to be true.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Yes, I do...

Harry Truman did it with executive order (http://www.majorcox.com/columns/truman.htm) because legislation was stonewalled by Southern Democrats.
Even once he signed it, the Army drug their feet until 1951, with the Korean war, when so many soliders died they had not choice but to integrate the units. Supposedly, integration was complete in 1953. But problems continued, through 1972 when Race riots in the Navy (http://www.history.navy.mil/library/special/racial_incidents.htm) led to congressional investigation and real integration of the Armed forces.

So, integration of the U.S. Military really took 25 years after Truman's exectuive order. We can only hope that getting rid of DADT won't take a full 25 years to implement.

[JeffR]

4. Don't be absurd.

The OP has drawn the only valid comparison between the two things. Please don't ruin this with facts. Facts are nasty.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. Well, then I might as well say Facts are stupid things...

and let it end there.

[JeffR]

6. Not just stupid.

They're bad awful and they get in the way of being able to posture on the intertubes and people hate not being able to posture on the intertubes because then they might not be able to suppress voter turnout for Democrats this November.

And that would be bad awful.

[JohnnyLib2]

7. Sad to see this issue become a plaything.

And to see Truman's role diminished.

Have fun, folks. I'm going to bed, shaking my head. :banghead: