eight years later he was not the guy as he was in 2000. the darn republicans, they always run the guys last. they run them late. they run them eight years, like bob dole, 20 years later you know? it s just nixon. they just kept running the guy. that s their problem but i can understand why he s mad at the media because he was the charmed candidate with the media in 2000 and gave us all of the access that we wanted. wrong assumptions that people made. he was always conservative on abortion and maybe this is coming through now. maybe he was pandering by the way, said that he was for getting rid of the don t ask, don t tell if the military came through. but i think that only more socially conservative. well he s arizona republican. he s an arizona republican. if you re going to go out there as the man of principlep i m the guy who sticks to my guys, i m the maverick, i adopt care what the party says. if you follow the military leadership, never mind don t ask, don t tell b
the right thing by gay service members, hah! then the decision by the obama administration whether or not to appeal this ruling is likely a decision between killing this policy, now, and letting it survive probably forever. the white house keeps saying they expect that the senate is going to repeal don t ask, don t tell after the elections. i find that impossible to imagine. i think that a lot of people around the country are not exhaling until the end of this vote. this has felt like it was going to go away a lot of times before, and it seems like it really is this time, but until that vote is called, i think a lot of people will not be breathing. good evening. a landmark vote on capitol hill today appears to signal a new era in gay rights in this country, while abolishing long-held military tradition and policy. some time this week, president obama will sign the newly passed legislation that repeals the don t ask, don t tell policy. that means for the time being, gays and lesbi
who put me inside the little machine. i don t want to make fun of him too much. i m probably more sympathetic to him than cliff is. but the operative word is protect bitter rather than amnesia amnesiac. he remembers things that have been done to him. he changes his mind on issues like climate change, immigration, relationships with vietnam. he s never changed his mind on an issue because people have confronted him directly on it. he s always changed his mind over time in a drip drip kind of way. people around him have influenced him. the kind of people who can make those arguments to him have sort of disappeared. so now when he s confronted with direct arguments and confronted by the same people we used to think of as allies or co-mavericks, across the aisle to join, he digs his heels in deeper, on the don t ask, don t
just who they are. i mean, i spent nine years in and knew the amount of pain that that caused. but secondly, i felt very, very proud for those 65 senators that, it s not too often that members of the senate get to vote on something that really changes people s lives and re-affirms the very special american right to treat everyone the same. and it made me very proud. [ applause ] actually, jonathan and katie, you both have written about and spoken about the toll it takes from a person to live under a policy that makes you lie. the stress, compromise to your integrity, as you wrote it in your resignation statement to west point, depression, things that you ve written about since you were discharged. it s been real harm has been done here, to thousands of americans, tens of thousands of americans who have served around this policy. people who have lived through
members, hah! then the decision by the obama administration whether or not to appeal this ruling is likely a decision between killing this policy, now, and letting it survive probably forever. the white house keeps saying they expect that the senate is going to repeal don t ask, don t tell after the elections. i find that impossible to imagine. i think that a lot of people around the country are not exhaling until the end of this vote. this has felt like it was going to go away a lot of times before, and it seems like it really is this time, but until that vote is called, i think a lot of people will not be breathing. good evening. a landmark vote on capitol hill today appears to signal a new era in gay rights in this country, while abolishing long-held military tradition and policy. some time this week, president obama will sign the newly passed legislation that repeals the don t ask, don t tell policy. that means for the time being, gays and lesbians will be allowed to openly s