Culhane: The Personal, the Political, and the Long View (Beyond DADT) |

Thoughtful, personal reflections on the elimination of DADT and the President's remarks at the signing by Widener law prof John Culhane.

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Sad. the bitterness of John McCain

Not very long ago John McCain was a Daily Show regular.  Jocular, straight-talking, mavericky.  How could any Democrat beat him, I thought.  Then came the Lehman collapse.  But now McCain thinks he should be President and that two lesser men stood in his way - first GW Bush and now BH Obama.  Now McCain plays the  bitter old man.    This from Talking Points Memo:

Before the Senate passed a repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell on Saturday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made an angry -- and somewhat rambling -- speech on the floor against the repeal. He warned of "distractions" for servicemembers, adding: "I don't want to permit that opportunity to happen and I'll tell you why. You go up to Bethesda [Naval Hospital], Marines are up there with no legs, none. You've got Marines at Walter Reed with no limbs."

"So here we are about six weeks after an election that repudiated the agenda of the other side," McCain said, "we are jamming -- or trying to jam major issues through the Senate."

All I can think of to say is: Senator, maybe you should ask yourself  `how many of those wounded soldiers are gay?