Dick Cheney Asks Obama to Wave His Magic Wand
Firedoglake —
... Update: Ah jeebus. As if working from a script, Fox's Major Garrett rushed off to the press conference and started waving Dick's magic wand for him. ...
Aubrey Sarvis: For Gays in the Military, Obama's Good Intentions Not Enough
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... judge for yourself. (The DADT discussion begins about eight minutes in.)
The White House changed his mind, however, and Morrell, who said Secretary Gates believed his Tuesday comments had been "mischaracterized," asked him to release a "statement of clarification," something like what Catholics might call an act of contrition. Fox News reported that Morrell gave it to a few Pentagon reporters Thursday night and to the rest of the world Friday morning.
At the White House briefing the day before (around the time Morrell first released his ...


