Obama Endorses MREA
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, has said that as commander-in-chief he will press Congress to pass The Military Readiness Enhancement Act, a bill to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
All this week, candidates responded to a question from the Human Rights Campaign about how, as president, they would work to repeal the law. Senator Obama said, in part, that "As president, I will work with Congress and place the weight of my administration behind enactment of the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, which will make nondiscrimination the official policy of the U.S. military. I will task the Defense Department and the senior command structure in every branch of the armed forces with developing an action plan for the implementation of a full repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.' And I will direct my Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to develop procedures for taking re-accession requests from those qualified service members who were separated from the armed forces under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and still want to serve their country."
Obama's statement is a strong stance in favor of our men and women in uniform, and welcome news.
You can read the other candidates' responses at HRC Back Story.
- Steve RallsLabels: 2008, barack obama, MREA, other blogs
12-02-07
2 Comments
Comments for this entry are closed.KipEsquire on December 31, 1969 at 02.00 pm
If he loves it so much, then why doesn’t he introduce a Senate version of it?
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Anthony on December 31, 1969 at 02.00 pm
Wow, this is the very strongest stance I have seen from any of the candidates. He sounds like a commander in chief to me. I particularly like the fact that he would allow service members kicked out under DADT to come back.