The Democrats failed during Tuesday night’s presidential debate. That’s what journalist Daniel Koffer thinks, anyway.
Koffer reminds readers that the main contenders – Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards – failed to understand the subtext of Tim Russert’s question: “There’s a federal statute on the books which says that, if a college or university does not provide space for military recruiters or provide a ROTC program for its students, it can lose its federal funding. Will you vigorously enforce that statute?”
Every candidate said yes, but failed to consider schools which oppose the military’s ban on openly gay soldiers.
By agreeing to enforce the Solomon Amendment, all three of them gave their assent to a policy whose only goal and only achievement is the perpetuation of discrimination against gay men and women.
Koffer then narrows in on Hillary, whose husband enacted the military’s discriminatory policy.
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todd
Are these really democrats? Or are they Republican light? We get the illusion of a choice, so the public can rabidly back candidates who have no differences. YAWN!!!
alan brickman
as opposed to the republican “pussyfooting”?…
Uzak
It will be a moot point – there will be no need for the school to oppose ROTC on campu becuase of gay issue (unless Hillary is president) because the other two – Edwards and Obama – have pledged to repeal don’t ask don’t tell, which is what caused the controversy that resulted in Solomon Amd in the first place the controversy