Reply #10: Here's the thing I can understand the anger on...

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If it were just the legalese in this brief....maybe there's a basis for it.
If it were just not immediately overturning DADT.....maybe there is some sort of pragmatic reasoning for that.

However, what gets to me even as a straight person is Obama's silence on these issues. It strikes me as craven political cowardice. Pragmatism is one thing. But keeping silent on these issues at best and at worst seeming flippant and nonchalant about understanding people's anger over this is another altogether.

Speak out. Say "Look here's the legal basis for this....here's why we can't do this or that right now, but we're working on it....."

But the silence as if these issues don't even exist, let alone are important to a lot of people....from someone who claimed to be SO concerned with civil rights and civil liberties.....it's disheartening and offensive to me so I can imagine it would be downright horrible for someone who is gay whose lives and very being are impacted by Obama's direction on gay rights since taking office.

I don't think he hates gays any more than Bill Clinton hated gays. But I do think that like Clinton he expects gays to not only "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the military, but in political life as well.