Change Who Can Believe In?
Yes, I voted for Obama. Yes, I believed that change was coming to Washington. Yes, I was a fool.
I’m a 71-year-old straight woman who thinks that the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell military policy has been a 17-year-old abomination. Obama campaigned on repealing it in his first year in office. He didn’t. In his State of the Union address, he promised to repeal it in his second year in office. He won’t. Not when he can send his military brass up to Capitol Hill to suggest that it has to be studied for yet another year. What’s to study? Do we really need to study the homophobes in the military for another year to figure out that the reason they’re homophobes is because they are in doubt about their own sexuality? I don’t think so.
We’re losing too many valuable people when our military is already stretched to the breaking point. The nonsense has to stop. Congress can take care of it on its own. For the sake of what’s right, let’s hope they do. For the sake of what’s just, let’s hope they have more balls than Obama.
