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Fuck it.
So I haven't been thrilled with everything Obama has done in office. I knew I wouldn't be. I never thought I'd agree with everything he did; I knew he couldn't do *everything* he said he was going to do, and I figured what he did do would take time. I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt on all of it, and I was thrilled at the beginning of the month when he declared June to be LGBT pride month. To me, as a symbol, that did mean something. But it is empty if he's going to turn around and not only defend DOMA in court, but use the same old, tired right-wing arguments to do it - especially after calling it "abhorrent" during the campaign. Okay Obama, way to break my heart. Letting down my guard and my wall of cynicism was clearly a bad call.
jonquil has a good post on the subject, and this is a good summary, though most people on my flist seem to be following fairly closely already. And don't even get me started on DADT and Dan Choi.
And that's far, far from the only depressing thing in the news today. I have to spend the rest of the afternoon working on my final project for my summer class, which is probably for the best. Otherwise I would probably spend it masochistically reading more and more links that are likely to give me rage blackouts.
So I haven't been thrilled with everything Obama has done in office. I knew I wouldn't be. I never thought I'd agree with everything he did; I knew he couldn't do *everything* he said he was going to do, and I figured what he did do would take time. I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt on all of it, and I was thrilled at the beginning of the month when he declared June to be LGBT pride month. To me, as a symbol, that did mean something. But it is empty if he's going to turn around and not only defend DOMA in court, but use the same old, tired right-wing arguments to do it - especially after calling it "abhorrent" during the campaign. Okay Obama, way to break my heart. Letting down my guard and my wall of cynicism was clearly a bad call.
jonquil has a good post on the subject, and this is a good summary, though most people on my flist seem to be following fairly closely already. And don't even get me started on DADT and Dan Choi.
And that's far, far from the only depressing thing in the news today. I have to spend the rest of the afternoon working on my final project for my summer class, which is probably for the best. Otherwise I would probably spend it masochistically reading more and more links that are likely to give me rage blackouts.