"President Obama does, in fact, have stroke-of-the-pen authority to suspend gay discharges." Y'know, if he does (and I can find no mention of any such power in the Constitution), I have nothing but sympathy for those poor guys. It seems like it might hurt. Plus it's a totally unwarranted and improper intrusion on people's private moments. Also, you'd think it would make their eyes bug out.
Okay, enough. The actual issue is one to which there is no safe response from the Oval Office; whatever he does, if he addresses the specific incident at all, a lot of people will be outraged. Anybody wanna bet on the lapdog White House Press Corps asking about it? Thought not.
I'll bet there are so many Arab linguists in the Army that they're positively turning them away at the door. Right.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, it'll be fun to see how this plays out.
Jim
Preventing gay discharges?
ReplyDeleteWhat impact will this have on the Talbott Street Art Fair?
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Shootin' Buddy
Snort!
ReplyDelete*spews diet pepsi*
SB, you owe me a keyboard :)
SB for the win!
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much the mental image that dogged me when I read it. A kind of Freddie-Mercury-in-a-Tex-Avery-cartoon moment.
My first thought was...Don't they have antibiotics for that???
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ReplyDeleteThis is a drive-by squeeing in honor of me being back online. YAYS!