Reply #38: I think that you must have missed part of my post

[Proud Liberal Dem]

I pasted it here so that it stands out a bit:

"Frankly, I'm surprised that some people here are upset that he hasn't fulfilled all of his campaign promises on a lot of issues when he has only been in office nearly four freaking months! It's like some people have completely forgotten that he has had to spend the bulk of his time on economic issues so far but even so he HAS set a lot of things in motion that will, unfortunately take some time to see through to completion. I could understand some people's concern and frustration if we were going on 3-4 years and he was basically sitting on his hands (or taking multiple month long vacations) or if he came out, for example and announced that he now supports maintaining DADT instead of repealing it (which, for the record, I don't believe would ever happen)."

Furthermore, did he ever once pledge to immediately do something about DADT- as soon as he came into office? I don't seem to recall that being something that he pledged to do more or less as soon as he came into office but if you have a link to something I might have missed, I'd be happy to take a look at it. Yeah, I think it's a terrible policy that should've never been enacted and I can't wait to see it repealed but I don't really blame Obama for not making it one of his first/top priorities and never really expected him to. Plus, I'd rather see Congress be the one to change the law so that another wingnut President like W can't come along and easily overturn it with a stroke of his/her pen. Once Congress repeals DADT and by the time somebody comes into office itching to see it repealed, too much time will already have passed and plenty of people will have seen that the military is functioning fine with gays and lesbians serving openly and there simply won't be any impetus for re-instituting DADT or an outright ban absent some kind of theocratic revolution in this country that is simply NOT likely to happen.