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May 26, 2010 Front Page, Politics, Problems 2 Comments

Big shout out to a former LYVEF employee! Last night, Kip Williams, co-founder of the gay rights group GetEqual, called out on Obama on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell during a fundraising speech for Barbara Boxer.

The President’s response was disappointing, at best. He told Kip that he should “buy a ticket to a guy who doesn’t support his point of view, and then you can yell as much as you want there”, and that he must “not be reading the newspapers”.

There’s no point in yelling at “a guy who doesn’t support” repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell when there’s a guy who does and has the power to make it happen but just isn’t doing it.

Check out Kip’s letter about the exchange and join the call for Obama to issue an Executive Order repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell!

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  1. OhioRiver says:

    This president will have more problems surfacing soon….the DOJ not investigating the Black Panthers voter intimidation is not over with people wanting all documentation on their ‘investigation’. Wonder why the DOJ didn’t do anything?

  2. MArvin DeBose says:

    I think it because the DOJ probably sees that Black Panther Party as a joke… I mean the original Panther party was committed to service and revolutionary change in Black communities, this one just seems to be committed to scaring white people, if those “Panthers” want to do something tell them to help some poor Black kids, tell them to educate their people, make them stop people from drug dealing in their communities… thats what the REAL Panthers would have done

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