Comments on: Sam Nunn Reconsiders DADT: ‘Times Change,’ May Be ‘Appropriate’ To Lift The Ban On Gays In The Military

By: Napoltes

Napoltes — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:04:27 +0000

The anger that I feel for Sam Nunn’s in blocking Clinton’s move to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military has not diminished. He does not now even state that he has changed his position. It is merely politically expedient now for him to appear more open-minded.

When he says, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is wrong now; it was wrong then; and I was wrong to oppose equal right for our gay and lesbian sons and daughters,” when he apologizes for having been a roadblock to equal rights, then maybe, we can forgive him.

He has not. He will not. Leave him on the trash heap of history’s bigots.

By: sacopenapa

sacopenapa — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:39:37 +0000

Coming from him, it sounds more like desperation than acceptance…

By: theswan

theswan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:55:53 +0000

I’m really not sure just why Sam Nunn would bring this up at this juncture. Is he trying to supplant this issue into the election? And is Sam just a republican in sheeps clothing? This subject is important but for a Democrat to get this ball rolling at this time seems right out of place.

By: lloydletta

lloydletta — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:15:33 +0000

Get some footage of Sam Nunn and his opposition to gays serving openly in the Military in 1993. As a commenter noted on Pam’s House Blend:

“Start with a Pentagon study,” Nunn said. (0.00 / 0)

THERE WAS ONE BACK THEN THAT INDICATED THEN THAT HAVING GAYS SERVE WAS DOABLE, BUT THE PENTAGON SUPPRESSED IT AND NUNN IGNORED ALL OF THAT!!!!!!!!

——————————————————————————–

by: oddjob

EY: Obama will alienate gays if he puts Nunn on the ticket. It’s especially of concern, if Nunn becomes the big adviser on military issues. Dick Cheney thought the gay ban was “an old chestnut”, when Nunn was hyterically bleating about the topic.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:56:36 +0000

looks like an escape clause to me

By: Zooey

Zooey — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:51:38 +0000

Is Daryll being funny? Or just tragically ironic?

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:47:31 +0000

Ah but by taking the phrase regarding ignorance out of the context it was in do you not set up a false premise?

By: Crusty Old Bastard

Crusty Old Bastard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:44:23 +0000

dbadass Says:

“Folks just don’t use silly old middle school phrase enough these day don’t ya think?”

I am not sure how you would recognize anything from middle school since, judging from your grammar, spelling, and syntax, you never made it that far.

I do apologize, however. When you stated your ignorance I didn’t take you seriously but now I do agree with you and will not ridicule you for your handicap ever again.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:21:32 +0000

Crusty Old Bastard Says:

No Shit, Sherlock!
—
I sort of dig the juvenile phrasing. Folks just don’t use silly old middle school phrase enough these day don’t ya think?

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:01:41 +0000

Umm, Voalse, this is not the Limbaugh/Hensley webpage…

By: Crusty Old Bastard

Crusty Old Bastard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:01:24 +0000

dbadass Says:

“Actually I am sort of ignorant…”

No Shit, Sherlock!

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:59:50 +0000

Hey Daryll, what you think about Hagee saying Hitler was doing GODs work?

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:08:21 +0000

Daryll:
One definately has to have a tool if they wish to “shake-off the devil” All kidding aside, why do you think the military chaplains aren’t using these tools on these folks? My future sinners have a little concert at their little public school sinner factory so I will check back later. It just seems so odd that the military would solve this problem with this tried and true technique. Actually I am sort of ignorant of how it works. Is it anything like Clockwork Orange where the gay serice people have to watch endless episodes of Top Gun and Spartacus?

By: Crusty Old Bastard

Crusty Old Bastard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:02:47 +0000

#19
I meant “closer” but “closed” works as well as “closet.”

My point is that it is nobody’s damn business except those concerned. Mine not to make reply, mine not to question why, mine just to do as I want and you to do the same.

By: Crusty Old Bastard

Crusty Old Bastard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:57:46 +0000

Methinks good old Sam should take a closed look at the Resucklicans in the House and Senate before he goes off half-cocked with Larry Craig.

By: dbadass

dbadass — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:56:46 +0000

No for real Daryll. Why not employ the gay conversion technique? Is it that it doesn’t work or is it that you do not wish to support the nation while doing your weird god’s work?

By: Badger

Badger — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:53:19 +0000

40 Years ago, Barry Goldwater (R.Arizona) said:” You Don’t have to BE straight to SHOOT Straight”

The Military is finally catching up with the Times.

By: Leftside Annie

Leftside Annie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:46:34 +0000

Translation: We’re running out of cannon fodder.
*eyeroll*

By: Buckie Boy

Buckie Boy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:40:50 +0000

Daryll – no matter how hard you wish it, the devil and god do not exist.

“So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don’t even live in West Virginia,” Cheney quipped.

By: dixie blood

dixie blood — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:39:54 +0000

Sounds like an election year suck up…gotta keep da Log Cabin RePugniScums in the camp…

Or maybe it’s a change of focus from stalking House pages to stalking military recruits!!!