If someone promises me a piece of gum now, or cake if I wait an hour later, I'd rather wait for the better option.
Only in this case, the cake is not an hour late. It's five years and waiting.
An EO is like putting on a bandage on a gaping wound, rather than waiting for an ambulance to take you to hospital for treatment.
In other words, the president is refusing to put a bandage on the wound because, in a few years, an ambulance will eventually be along deal with the wound more comprehensively.
Yes, he did, but he evolved on the subject.
He doesn't have much time left to evolve on the issue of gay rights. I guess he hasn't kept his promise because he's still waiting on his evolution.
Some laws take time to get pushed through. The government doesn't work as fast as we want it to. Deal with it.
As you have already pointed out, this isn't a law, and it does not require an act of Congress.
It requires a signature only. A signature five years (and counting) in the making.
Also, it took a loooong time for African Americans and women to get equal rights, and it's going to take a long time for us too. Not everything good comes easy or fast.
Apparently, the president thinks we need to wait indefinitely longer. Maybe we'll appreciate rights more if we have to wait for them.
If you read what I posted earlier, it doesn't matter what the speaker's political slant is. There's a certain way to act when people are speaking, and you don't attack your allies. I may not agree with Mrs. Bush's politics, but she seems like a decent woman, and as the President's wife, she is to be treated with respect when interacting with her. Effective activists know when and where to make a scene, and attacking an ally isn't it.
What makes you believe that the president is an "ally?"
He is refusing to support us on this issue. The only possible conclusion is that he is refusing to support us because he does not believe our cause has merit. That makes him an enemy, not an ally.
And, by your own inference, he becomes fair game to heckle.
If Ellen had waited until after the speech to ask Mrs. Obama her question, she could have gotten her message across without coming off like a ranting buffoon.
We've been waiting to discuss the issue until after the speech for five years now, and it has gotten us nowhere.
A definition of idiocy is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. Methinks we are the idiots the Obama administration believes us to be.
Acting like a lunatic Teatard doesn't work.
Obviously, neither does acting politely.
The only reason he "evolved on the issue" and made a [STRIKE]calculated political [/STRIKE] almost perfectly timed announcement is that he needed to energize the liberal base so they would actually turn out the vote. Up until the announcement the far left was generally disappointed with his performance. Had he not thrown the far left a bone...we might be discussing President Romney today.
President Obama has done more to advance the cause of gay rights than any previous president in history. He has probably done more than every previous president in history
combined.
And yet, I get the feeling that he has done so reluctantly. That he wishes we would go away. That he has better things to do than deal with the non-problems of some stupid faggots.
