Clinton & Huckabee Talk About the Ban
The 2008 presidential contenders are talking about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
USA Today reports that, during a campaign trip to Iowa, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton noted that "Right now, we are discharging soldiers at a time when we don't have enough people to do the missions we need around the world because they're gay. Not because they've done anything, but just because they're gay." Clinton went on to quote the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, a Republican who supported the rights of gay troops: "I think the question should be not whether you are straight, but whether you shoot straight."
A Republican candidate for the White House, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (pictured), "left open the possibility that, if elected, he would . . . change the Pentagon's policy on gay service members, although he insisted he would take his cues from military commanders on both fronts," the Associated Press said.
Huckabee, the AP reported, said he would "leave it up to the military and let their recommendation stand" on whether to keep "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in place.
"I'm not sure that being homosexual should automatically disqualify a person from the military. If a person can do his or her job, you know that's not for me the biggest issue," Huckabee said.
(You can join the discussion about Huckabee's comments at Pam's House Blend.)
- Steve RallsLabels: 2008, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee
04-24-07
1 Comments
Comments for this entry are closed.Mark on December 31, 1969 at 02.00 pm
No one should kid themselves about Huckabee’s intentions on repealing DADT (he is a fundamentalist Christian) - his words are basically double-speak for he doesn’t really want to deal with this issue, but he wants to have it both ways by making no commitment one way or another. If he claims he will leave it up to military commanders, that’s nothing more than code for he intends to change absolutely nothing about existing policy.
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