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In reply to the discussion: An open letter to folks like myself who cannot in good conscience vote for Obama [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)to stop pushing him, despite the insults, as we are now seeing regarding Civil Liberties. He not only did not push for ending DADT, his DOJ went to court to overturn the court ruling that was achieved, not by Democrats, by a case brought by the Log Cabin Republicans, striking it down.
I remember it well, I wrote about it here and was met with the same kind of opposition I see in this thread, when I said that he COULD do it. I researched and found a law under which he could, as CIC have ended it in Jan. 2009. The 'opposition' here even tried to argue against that law.
But I am happy that people refused to be quiet, that he realized in the end he was on the wrong side of history and finally did the right thing re DADT. This all happened because of people who refused to be silenced by others, such as those in this thread, now trying to silence people on Civil Liberties.
The good thing is he did change his mind. A Republican would never have done so even if the individual wanted to because their Party would not tolerate it. The Dem Party did as it should.
Now we are obliged to push once again, on the issue of Civil Liberties and Human Rights and no matter how the same people who tried to silence people on LGBT rights, are once again, busy doing the same thing. We will ignore them.
And IF this President in his second term changes his mind on these most important issues, those same people will forget their own opposition to those changes, just as they now forget their opposition to pushing for Gay Rights. But we will not forget because it is a lesson learned. Never listen to anyone who tries to silence you on the Civil Rights of anyone. Those people are suspect and should never be listened to.
The OP of this thread is a fighter. He has done more for the rights of people to vote than all of his detractors in this thread put together. It is shameful to see what has become of DU frankly. I am very suspicious of people who attack someone who is thinking of ways to get people to vote. I wonder what THEIR motives are.