79 posts tagged “obama”
I also continue to believe...
President Obama: "Time to act is now" - Sept. 07, 2009 -
At his Labor Day speech to the AFL-CIO in Ohio, President Obama says it's time to reform health care.
via Americablog:
Yesterday, the Obama transition team included a
question about DADT in their weekly online Q&A with incoming White
House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. In that Q&A, Gibbs reads a question from Thaddeus in Lansing, Michigan. Thaddeus asks:
Gibbs answers:
"Is the new administration going to get rid of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy?"
"Thaddeus, you don't hear a politician give a one-word answer much, but it's 'Yes.'"
We should have a NCAA Division 1 football playoff. I'm not sure how they would do it. The students need to be with their families during the holidays.
It's going to be nice having a President with common sense.
WH Tells Obamas, No Room at the Blair House
By Dan Eggen
The Bush administration has denied President-elect Barack Obama's request to move early into an official guest house across from the White House, citing previously scheduled commitments, a transition official said today.
The Obamas wanted to move into Blair House before Jan. 5, so that daughters Malia and Sasha could start classes on time at Sidwell Friends School in Washington. "But there were previously scheduled events and guests that couldn't be displaced," said a transition spokesperson, who agreed to be quoted only on condition of anonymity.
Sally McDonough, a spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush, said in a statement that Blair House will be "available to President-elect Obama and his family starting January 15, as is historically the case." Prior to that, McDonough said, "should he need to use it for a meeting or such he can certainly request it and the transition office will check its availability...
Obama team denies it will delay ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Nov 25, 3:14 PM
A member of Barack Obama’s transition team is denying media reports that the president-elect has decided to delay efforts to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” until 2010.
An Obama transition team spokesperson, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the decision on how to approach repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which prohibits gays from serving openly in the military, would be made after more experts have joined the Obama administration.
“These decisions will not be made before the full national security team is in place,” the spokesperson said...
I'm inclined to agree with Mr. Ridley. Quick, common sense post.
I just ran across this. If it's true... dissent will come to this VOX page.
Delay in repelling Don't Ask Don't Tell
...Today’s Washington Times features an interview with Aubrey Sarvis of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Rather than aggressively advocating for an immediate repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” he is instead advising Obama’s transition team to wait until 2010.
That doesn’t sound like activism – it sounds like spineless appeasement. If John McCain had won the election and told gay rights advocates to wait a couple of years before addressing the military’s gay ban, we’d howl with derision at his homophobia. But because Obama is a Democrat, our supposed advocates give him cover. Obama promised to repeal the discriminatory gay ban, a position endorsed by scores of retired generals and admirals and supported by a majority of Americans according to recent opinion polls.
It’s 2008, not 1993. Times have changed since President Clinton caved to pressure and enacted “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” We will never experience the change that was promised if our activists accede to every demand of the Democratic Party. More than 12,000 careers have been destroyed because of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Why should brave service members have to wait years longer to simply serve their country openly?
There is no rational justification for prolonging the repeal effort any longer. No more waiting, no more excuses and no more cover for duplicitous, squeamish politicians from our timid activist groups.
Barack Obama in a collage of over 600 headlines from around the world on November 5th, 2008 after wining the US presidential election.
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I love my neighborhood. Germantown / Freeland Station - Nashville, TN November 04, 2008
Barack Obama, the first black major party nominee, is positioned to win the largest share of white voters of any Democrat in more than three decades...
...44 percent of non-Hispanic white voters presently support Obama — the highest number for a Democrat since 47 percent of whites backed Jimmy Carter in 1976.
No Democrat has won a majority of white voters since Lyndon Johnson in 1964...
If Obama's share holds, it would top the 43 percent of white voters who backed Bill Clinton in 1996, when the Democrat won a plurality among white females and 38 percent of white men, the best performance by a Democrat in all those categories since 1976...
