DADT: CIC FAIL!!!

[Withywindle]

If you read the internet, you know what FAIL means.

Obama is the CIC of the military. That is part of what the responsibility of the Presidency means. He was legitimately elected in a landslide nearly two years ago, and, while his approval rates are not high at the moment, that's mostly due to the fact that too many people have no frakkin' jobs.

Right now, talking about DADT, he really DOES have the power, as commander-in-chief of the military. Truman used that CIC power when he FORCEFULLY integrated BLACK AND WHITE MEN TOGETHER into ALL the armed forces, against the will of Southern bigots. Hell, Southern white boy bigots were still bemoaning it decades later into Vietnam. Didn't matter. The military didn't coddle their bigotry. (Officially, at least. Unofficially, it still hung on long enough for Chef on South Park--Isaac Hayes, God rest his soul--to talk about the 'Darkies In the Front' strategy, and get knowing laughs from the whole theater)

I had high hopes for Obama. I am officially done. I know it took me a long time. Sorry. I wanted to believe.

I am writing him a letter to this effect right now. In a word-processing program. I will print it out and send it by snail mail.