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In reply to the discussion: Glenn Greenwald never passes up an opportunity to take a crack at Pres. Obama [View all]MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)That the Administration wouldn't eventually pursue the role that it did.
The problem, apparently, was that the Administration wasn't moving at the pace that GG desired. Dropping everything and going whole hog right off the bat to kill DADT and fight DOMA.
The collapsing economy and getting our troops out of Iraq be damned
Hurry up and do it all by his lonesome, they wanted, in spite of the fact that if any subsequent administration that comes around which would be hostile to gay rights, they could easily undo his actions and could turn back the clock. In spite of the fact that, had he done what they had desired when they wanted him to do when they wanted him to do it, it would undermine any permanent removal of DADT and DOMA.
No, instead Obama had to use stop-gap administrative measures to fix things that Congress put in place, in their narrative. Or else he wasn't serious about these issues. Cut that Gordian Knot with administrative action, or else you hate gay people.
Again, we see where we are now, versus where we were then.
Now, I'm not saying that there was anything wrong with being impatient with fighting injustice, but both he and John Aravosis did quite a bit of misrepresenting the Administration's desired outcome during that debate and much of it was discussed here.
Yes, I had faith that Obama would eventually do right on DADT and DOMA and perhaps that was because of the advantage of 22 years that I spent in uniform and being stationed in DC during much of that time as a witness to how the Government really operates, that I recognized that Greenwald's and Avarosis' narratives were both unfair and dishonest
However, now that we see that things didn't turn out the way that they said that they were. They turned out much differently.
When Greenwald, just last night, parroted FOX/GOP talking points that Obama needs to be investigated because he "lied" or whatever about Benghazi, that really doesn't put my faith in him that he's being an honest broker today.