How Obama could improve his approval rating.

[glen123098]

Repeal don't ask don't tell. The vast majority support repealing it.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/obama.gays.military/

"Public opinion appears to be shifting on the matter. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll conducted December 19-21 found that 81 percent of respondents believe openly gay people should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, while 17 percent said they shouldn't. The poll's margin of error was plus-or-minus 3 percentage points."





How could he lose by doing that? I bet he would gain 10 points in the polls if he did it.

[AllentownJake]

1. Requires congressional action

and I don't think the Blue Dogs are itching for a Gay Rights action right after the Health Care debate...and he panders to their wishes.

[glen123098]

4. It seems like a winning fight though.

Why wouldn't Obama want to be on the side with 81 percent of Americans?

[AllentownJake]

5. Because Blue Dogs are parnoid about anything that is a win for the party base

They are afraid that people might think they are a real democrat back home.

[Clio the Leo]

6. He is....

DADT Likely To Be Part of Defense Bill

By Kerry Eleveld
Repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” will likely be included as part of next year’s Department of Defense authorization bill in both chambers of Congress, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) said Wednesday.

“Military issues are always done as part of the overall authorization bill,” Frank said, insisting that this has been the strategy for overturning the policy all along. “'Don’t ask, don’t tell' was always going to be part of the military authorization.”

Frank said he has been in direct communication with the White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, and other Congressional leaders about the strategy for ending the 1993 ban on gays serving openly in the military.

Though some moderate Democrats have recently expressed concern about repealing the policy during a midterm election year, Frank said resolve at the White House has never wavered. “The Administration is totally committed to this and has been from the beginning,” he said.

Anecdotally, Frank recalled an incident earlier this year when Defense Secretary Robert Gates made a statement to reporters suggesting that repeal was still an open question.

“There was a point where Gates said, ‘If we repeal don’t ask, don’t tell,’ -- and the next day he said, ‘When we repeal don’t ask, don’t tell,’” said Frank. “That’s because Rahm called him up. The White House has been consistently committed.”

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2009/11/11/DADT... /

[doc03]

2. I don't believe that poll, I think he would open

another can of worms.

[msallied]

3. It sure would help put more feet on the ground over there.

When we need as many as we can get. To have such a law in place when we're fighting two wars is stupid.