Oliie North: Not so Fast on DADT

[unhappycamper]

Not so Fast on DADT
By convicted felon Oliver North | March 04, 2010

He had to give them something. During his first year in office, Barack Obama made the rounds of his constituents and tried to appease them all. For the pacifists there were promises to get out of Iraq. Self-loathing Americans were given a global, kow-towing, Presidential apology tour. The Marxist-librarian constituency was assuaged when he accepted communist literature from Hugo Chavez. To satisfy Rodney King -- "Can't We All Just Get Along?" adherents, Mr. Obama promised to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo. Proponents of global environmental policy, universal health care, nationalized industry, and massive government, all got something.

But the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered community, which worked so hard to elect Mr. Obama, wasn't feeling the love. The President wouldn't let them out of the closet, they argued, and their patience was wearing thin. POTUS had to give them reason to stay in the fold.

The payoff came in his State of the Union Address, when Mr. Obama went off on another frolic and diversion in declaring, "This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are."

That set Washington's Self-Esteem Caucus on full throttle. "Fairness" is liberalism's golden calf, and now, a central organizing principle of Mr. Obama's national security policy. The pundits, citing politicians and polls, declared that "society has moved on" and that the 1993 law barring active homosexuals from military service is "old and outdated."

When Secretary of Defense Robert Gates went so far as to suggest that he was prepared to ignore enforcement of the law, he wasn't chastised -- he was commended. Others who once stood up for our military and their families, but who now voice support for opening the military to active homosexuals are -- for the first time in their careers -- cited by the media as "authoritative," even "heroic."


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,211659,00.html?wh=news

[CBGLuthier]

1. Just how many criminals write for the RW anyway?

Why do people listen to a man who is nothing more or less than a traitor to the united states?

[Unvanguard]

2. Generally the opposite of whatever Oliver North wants is a good idea. n/t

[SharonAnn]

11. Absolutely! Why would we consider a convicted felon's input to be valid?

[baldguy]

3. Another Republican about which everyone needs to ask every time he pokes his head up:

Why isn't he in jail?

[MuseRider]

4. Just one more reason

to dislike this man (putting it mildly). As all the others have said, why is this man allowed to walk the streets freely and why should anyone ever listen to anything he says?

[Deep13]

5. traitor

I'm not going to listen to a man who ought to be at the end of a rope.

(After a fair trial and appeals blah, blah, blah.)

[Doctor_J]

6. Is Ollie blogging from prison?

And why is delusional right-wing screed posted on DU?

[unhappycamper]

7. Ollie has a column over at military.com.

No, he's not in the can; that pardon thingie is what kept him out. I post his screeds so we can remain aware of the bullshit he spouts.

[harkadog]

12. What pardon?

Judge Gesell dismissed all charges against him in 1991.

[MineralMan]

8. Who gives a damn what that convicted felon says?

The GOP has a felon as a spokesperson. Typical.

[Dr.Phool]

10. Ollie North gives convicted felons a bad name.

Some actually have some good ideas.

Not that one.

[jeremyfive]

9. We Should Have Hung Ollie North

Not very nice to arrange secret arms sales to our nation's enemies (arms used to kill Americans) to get a temporary boost to our boss's reputation, then shred the whole mess in a paper shredder.

North should have been hung.

[imnKOgnito]

13. Ollie North is one of the primary reasons,,,,

for the US needing a Presidential apology tour.