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- From: tim@ear-ache.mit.edu (Tim Wilson)
- Subject: Re: Clinton may not issue Executive Order
- In-Reply-To: black@sybase.com's message of 19 Jan 93 01:33:55 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:43:47 GMT
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- In article <28191@sybase.sybase.com> black@sybase.com (Chris Black)
- writes:
-
- The question is whether or not he appears to be pushing the
- military around -- which would be politically expensive for him at
- this point in time.
-
- He's the boss. It's in the Constitution. Commander-in-Chief. He
- gets to push them around. It's in the job description. I hope he
- *enjoys* it.
-
- If doing it in a roundabout way lets him conserve his political
- capital for other battles, I say more power to him.
-
- Uh, this might be really selfish on my part, but I really want him to
- do this in a very public way. I wanna see him spend, actually invest
- is a better word, a little political capital on this.
-
- Regardless of the perception that the military is a bunch of right
- wing cranks, the military is a great moderating force in America. The
- enlisted men and women come from everywhere: all geographical
- regions, all political bents, all sexual orientations and practices.
- I think some of us are failing to imagine just how much impact this
- will have, how much easier it will be to get federal gay rights
- legislation passed because of it.
-
- And I really don't think we should be considering putting pressure
- on Clinton when he's doing the right thing, just not in the way we
- might prefer. Let's save it for when he's doing the wrong thing.
-
- I think he's gonna do the right thing.
-
- --
- Tim Wilson
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