As I noted yesterday, the White House held a meeting late yesterday afternoon with representatives of Gay, Inc., plus representatives from organizations like SLDN and SU that are actually pushing to make DADT history. Since any discussion of the pending litigation in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States was off the table as a pre-condition of the meeting, there was really little point to the meeting other than Obama trying to look like he's doing something for LGBT Americans - even though he's not. As Metro Weekly notes:*
President Obama dropped by today's White House meeting on DADT..... A White House aide confirmed this, saying the president stopped by the meeting "to directly convey to the participants his personal commitment on this issue."
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A person outside the White House familiar with the meeting agenda told Metro Weekly that there were three main points the White House was looking to impress upon attendees: (1) President Obama was pushing for lame-duck Senate action, (2) there would would more meetings up to the vote and (3) executive options are not being looked at right now.
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Excuse me, but Obama must really think we are all a bunch of cretins if he believes that we will now all be happy homos and fall in line and kiss his disingenuous ass. Had Obama had any personal commitment to end DADT, no appeal would have been filed in the DADT and no action would have been taken to stay Judge Phillips' injunction against enforcement of DADT. Pam Spaulding is equally unimpressed and rightfully so:
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Yawn. FAIL. Again. This song and dance is really tiring at this point. . . . No plan, no fallback plan either. Sound familiar? How many times can Lucy jerk the football away from Charlie Brown? DADT is alive and kicking, and it will be after the election -- and in 2011. That means the President and HRC didn't deliver as promised. That is something no one will forget. The ineptitude and lack of a plan, as well as the gross use of the LGBT community is just plain sad.
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I don't know about readers, but I am way past being over this president and his lies and broken promises. I'm voting on next Tuesday, but it has NOTHING to do with supporting this president who continues to throw LGBT Americans under the bus.
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