As A Lifelong Democrat... Are You Satisfied With The "Hope And Change" That Was Promised In 2008 ???

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72. Those of you who always assume and never ask fail to learn. I'm assuming that when

doling out the credit DADT repeal, you do not always exclude the millions of Americans who fought against it from day one, in 1993, the thousands of in service gay men and women who faced punishment, discharge, dishonor for a decade, the many who took great risks with their own lives to push repeal, the arrested, the forgotten.
Because if you ask gay and lesbian people who got that repeal done, the answer is 'we did' followed by 'with a late, last minute assist from Obama and other Democrats, some of whom had initially voted for that bullshit'.
Going to be hard pressed to find folks who do not acknowledge that our own people were dragged away by cops, discharged aggressively and maligned in the press to fight that battle. Few would credit only a single politician. Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold, the ONLY two Democrats to have voted against DADT in every vote and also for the repeal also get political props.
This was a decade long battle. Fair is fair. Obama played a great and important but far from solitary role in that play.
The listmakers always exclude the actual blood and sweat and sacrifices made. For a decade. It is a poor choice on their parts.