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• Monday, June 29, 2009 06:48 PM

  Yawn that sounds about like George Wallace to me

  It's not for him to counsel patience. Please. That's the same tripe segregationists were pedalling in the 50s and 60s right before they, as the responsible executives, proceeded to do absolutely nothing to ensure equal rights.

  You can't cut the baby in half on this one, buddy. You're either for it or against it.

  Everyone wants to pretend that gradualism is always the answer, but that's total b.s.

  We have the Civil Rights we do today, not because JFK was a gradulist but because Lyndon Johnson forced through a Civil Rights Bill. Period.

  The Armed Services are desegregated not because Harry Truman spent his time dithering, placating, and vacillating all while preaching "The Buck Almost Stops Here" but because he had the balls to say, "I'm the president, I'm desegregating the Armed Forces, the military will learn to deal with it. End of story."

  You're either for equal rights or you aren't. You're either going to overturn or get Don't Ask, Don't Tell overturned or you're not. In short, Mr. President, you're either going to do something or you are not. Dithering is not doing anything. And you've shown, repeatedly, you intend to pay lip service to this like some second-class used car salesman and do nothing about it.

  You've moved yourself WELL out of the line of any reasonably brave progressive or any person even with a backbone. Just go away on this issue already.

  "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."--Dante

  Go ahead and quote MLK some more for the American public and do nothing Barack.

  —libertyson Read libertyson's other letters
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