EXCEPT THAT IF IT ACTUALLY WERE POPULAR...:

Obama's Betrayal On Don't Ask Don't Tell (Shikha Dalmia, 06.03.09, Forbes)

But while both public opinion--and evidence--are lining up in favor of repealing Don't Ask, President Obama is going in the opposite direction. The White House's civil rights Web site in recent weeks has significantly watered down the strong language it was using to signal its commitment to scrapping the law. Even more troubling, Obama did nothing--not so much as utter a whisper of protest--when West Point grad Dan Choi, an Iraq veteran and an Arab linguist, was fired recently for revealing that he was gay.

President Obama is pleading for time to push this issue until after, presumably, he has averted global warming, revived the economy and implemented universal health coverage. But to backburner a major civil rights cause for which the country is ready, and that is well within his power to advance, in order to save the world first, bespeaks a profound megalomania.

...he'd follow the polls.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 3, 2009 10:03 AM