Comments on: I Take It All Back

By: Nob Akimoto

Nob Akimoto — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:50:27 +0000

I honestly don’t quite get the premise behind this post.

Are you arguing that incrementalism on say gay rights is responsible for the Uguandan legislation and forms some sort of tacit “complicity”? …are you serious?

Or is there something else?

By: Koz

Koz — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:38:12 +0000

I must be dense but this post is only marginally comprehensible for me.

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Barack Obama and the Slow Pace of Gay Rights | ThePolitic.com — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:47:49 +0000

[...] H. Payne is none too pleased with Barack Obama and the lack of activity on the gay rights front. He expresses despair that [...]

By: Jivatman

Jivatman — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:18:44 +0000

There are legitimate arguments that additional time should be allotted when crafting large and complex legislation such as stimulus or health care bills.

But those arguments cannot be made for many simple issues of human rights such as the repeal of DADT.

By: Jonathan McLeod

Jonathan McLeod — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:43:00 +0000

Nice, Jaybird. There’s hardly a need for me to comment after that. Of course, I will, nonetheless…

There can be a good argument to go slowly, and to not take on too much at once, but with something like DADT, there is no excuse to for going so slowly.

By: Jaybird

Jaybird — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:50:49 +0000

Compromise a little bit here, a little bit there, make a deal here, make a deal there.

Politics is the art of the possible, after all. To be sure, Rome was not built in a day. Ideological purity is all well and good but we are getting things actually acomplished here! Or we will, right after we make this deal…

And, one day, you realize that you don’t have any you there anymore. It’s all gone. You traded your birthright for a mess of pottage.