Obama plans to sign repeal of gay ban Wednesday

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

The Associated Press
Monday, December 20, 2010; 1:44 PM

WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama plans to sign the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members on Wednesday, four days after the Senate voted to abolish the policy.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/20/AR2010122002910.html

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Count on someone to say that tonight's lunar eclipse is an example of some supreme deity's wrath at this turn of events.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. The hurry is dizzying!

[sharp_stick]

2. huh? n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Slower than the tax cut signing.

Meaning: :shrug:

[progressoid]

6. Maybe the WH ran out of Presidential Pens

[Tx4obama]

9. They said on the news that time was needed for the folks that wanted to be there to get there.

Maybe they are waiting till Wednesday so that Dan Choi can be released from the hospital by then!

[onenote]

11. And now that the reason for waiting until Wednesday is out, do you have anything else to say?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x573442

[sharp_stick]

12. Probably that he want's people

to be able to attend that weren't able to drop everything to be there. He also wanted to set up a press conference.

Either that or he secretly hates gay people and wants everything that isn't a part of the corporatist, illuminati conspiracy to fail miserably.

:shrug:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

14. Multiple good theories.

+1

[JuniperLea]

5. OFFS...

I need to go find the email I sent to a fellow DUer... in which I stated that many a DUer will cry "What took so long!???!?!?!" as a knee jerk reaction instead of anything close to a celebration.

I really thought I was being over the top... thanks, I think, for proving me wrong... :eyes:

[Recursion]

7. For Christ's sake

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

Yes, I knew somehow DU would get mad at the way he signs the damn bill.

[no limit]

8. DADT is over, time to relax a bit brah

[Unvanguard]

13. At this point it makes no difference. Implementation is not immediate anyway.

The date that matters is the date of certification, which is independent of the date of signing. The only important other deadline was the end of the lame-duck session, and it got through Congress before that.

[Scurrilous]

3. Good news.

K & R :thumbsup:

[Piggy56]

10. No more DADT

Thank you president Obama. I'll be celebrating for my gay friends on Wednesday.