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In reply to the discussion: If it's not racism, then what is it? [View all]dsc
(52,162 posts)but if you were and you wrote such drivel as Clinton gets a free pass, then you are just plain dishonest. Gays did to Clinton exactly and precisely what they did and are doing to Obama. Clinton got major protests over DADT at every single fundraiser he did for much of 1993. He also got a smaller percentage of gay votes in 96 than he did in 92. It is just plain, flat out, gold carat, dishonest to state that Clinton gets some sort of free pass. You are also wrong in regards to Obama. Gays voted as strongly for Obama in 12 as they did in 08. The drop off among gays in 10 was actually less than that of union households and the youth vote. Given that the out gay vote skews young, that means we likely would have had no drop off at all if there hadn't been among the youth. Yes, he has been and continues to be protested by gays over policy, just like Clinton. And just like Clinton on some issue he deserves that protest. No protest, no end to DADT, since Obama publicly stated over and over and over again, that his time table for repealing DADT was 2011 by which time we had a GOP House. ENDA is a non starter with a GOP House so yes, Obama needs to do the executive order. Truman's order could have been undone, it wasn't. Most of the state level executive orders on employment haven't been overturned by GOP governors (the only exception I can think of is VA and the AG who spearheaded that is considered extreme). We aren't racist to treat Clinton and Obama the same, praise when they do right, protest when they do wrong. It would be racist to do otherwise.