May 15 at 10:03AM
Jon Stewart Nails Obama on Don't Ask Don't Tell
On last night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart made a sharp observation about the absurdity of our leaders. Essentially, they will go to any length to protect us, including torture, unless it involves boys who like boys, because, you know, ew.
Jon continues the discussion with John Oliver after the jump.
The Daily Show airs Monday through Thursday at 11pm / 10c.
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"instant gratification"… Little do you realize the gay community has been fighting this law since it's inception. 15 years is hardly instant gratification; it hasn't happened soon enough.
You should read up on gay history a bit. Policies against them in the military started back in WWII (somewhere around 1942). During the fighting against NAZI Germany, the U.S. Military decided they didn't want gays enlisting and serving. They couldn't legally do so unless they were psychologically deficient. This is where the APA classifications came in (later redacted in the 70s). So once they could deem gay members unfit for service they were given blue discharge papers, some ended up serving in state-side labor camps. (From "Before Stonewall"; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088782/)
Similar things happened in the UK, following WWII, 250,000 gay soldiers serving in the British military lost many of their rights.
It's funny how at times, countries can appear to stand for one thing, and at the same time practice what it is their fighting against, and decades later people don't even realize it ever happened.
Everybody making excuses for Obama, that will lose political leverage, make too many enemies, etc. is on a slippery slope, right down to the point where there is no difference between him and Bush. Between his inaction on this other issues plus his reversals on Guantanamo, we are a lot closer to that point than most people seem to think.
Great job, Jon.
Next time, nail him on extraordinary rendition, conveniently NOT BANNED in the famous Executive Order that closed Gitmo.
Do we really want to continue a policy that was wrongfully used to detain an American citizen without trial?
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The same as Bush? Obama will never be the same as Bush, unless he develops a learning disorder. Regardless of what he does, I respect that he at least has the capability to admit a mistake when he makes one, instead of making things worse by trying to cover it up. Also, I like listening to a president speak who doesn't sound like a complete moron, someone of which I don't have to be embarrassed.
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why can't he wave a magic wand and make it go away? he said he would. or is this another example of obama over-promising before researching what he's saying…
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Ok, can we PLEASE stop giving Obama a pass on everything he goes back on from the campaign trail? Can we please stop chalking it up to "well, bush was so bad its going to take time to fix things?" Obama can change this policy with nothing more than a pen – he is in charge of the military! Wise up people!
Or can you not imagine that a politician would say something to get elected, and then do something different once elected? I guess we don't have enough examples of that in our history for it to be a possible reason nothing is changing. Please.
Obama can do things…give him some time….I am sure he will turn out to be a good President.
President Obama has thus far lent himself to disappointment among his supporters, and I am one of those supporters and I don't intend to stop supporting him. But the don't ask don't tell kerfuffle is a classic example of how he's flat out done things in direct conflict with what he told us on the campaign trail.
Walter is right. Obama can change this policy with a penstroke, nothing more. No senate committees, no back room schmoozing. Why he's choosing not to do it is beyond me. I'm very glad Jon (Stephen too) is taking him to task for things like this.
I agree with others who stated that he's been in office for a very short time and still has time ahead of him to implement the things he's talked about but not yet accomplished. The final verdict regarding how well he walks the walk will come November 2012. Which, of course, means nothing since we're all going to die on 12/21/12 anyway.