rather than, "This compromise is meant to protect gay soldiers to the extent that we can right now, but they deserve full civil rights."
@emilynussbaum ... is where things really went off the rails. There are many, many valid complaints of Clinton, but DADT was a tough call...
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@chrisgeidner The truth is, he simply shouldn't have made an election promise to change it the first day he was in office. Awful precedent. -
@emilynussbaum You're probably right there on the problem being Clinton making a promise he couldn't keep. -
@chrisgeidner@emilynussbaum (Say the same stuff about DOMA and I'll agree, Emily. DADT was just naivete/hubris to me.) -
@KateAurthur@emilynussbaum (I might be working on a story on ~that~ front right now, so I'm declining further comment at this time, but.)
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@emilynussbaum ... that he pretty much had to make. Or it would have been an outright ban. -
@chrisgeidner I still think that he could have stated the principle & forged a compromise anyway, but maybe I'm wrong.
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