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Open for Questions Round 2: Response
Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Blog —
When we closed out the first round of Open for Questions with around 20,000 people participating, 10,000 questions submitted, and 1,000,000 votes on which we should answer, we were thrilled. But we were also concerned that the splash of unveiling this new tool meant that would be the high-water mark. During this second round, we decided to leave the voting open significantly longer, but even with that extra time we were surprised to see the final totals: 103,512 people submitted 76,031 questions and cast 4,713,083 votes. We can now be confident that the success of the first round was not just ...
Open for Questions Round II: A Video Response
techPresident —
Change.gov has just wrapped the second round of its Open for Questions feature with a twist. Round One's answers came in the form of (brief) written responses to site's top-rated questions. This time, incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs taped a video response to a handful of popular questions. Notably, though, some of the most highly-rated questions in Round Two didn't get the Gibbs treatment. With 23,000 votes, the site's top rated question came from Democrats.com's Bob Fertik on appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the Bush Administration. It was dealt with here in a footnote -- ...
'Open For Questions' Has Some Answers
The Caucus —
January 09 (0 comments) ‘Open For Questions’ Has Some Answers More than 100,000 people submitted questions to the Obama transition team, including thousands of users who wanted to know whether the future president would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate “the gravest crimes of the Bush Administration.”
One-word answer
Political Animal —
ONE-WORD ANSWER.... During the campaign, Barack Obama vowed to end the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, a position that proved to be uncontroversial and generally endorsed by voters. Since Election Day, however, there have been at least some whispers about the policy and its eventual fate. As part of the transition team's "Open for Questions" project, press secretary Robert Gibbs responded to questions posed online and voted on by visitors to change.gov. The final inquiry: Is the new administration going to get rid of the "don't ask don't tell" policy? Gibbs responded ...
Video: Obama press secretary promises to get rid of “don’t ask, don’t tell”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Video: Obama press secretary promises to get rid of “don’t ask, don’t tell” posted at 12:15 pm on January 10, 2009 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly From Change.gov . The One himself promised this during the campaign, then stepped back a bit after the election, and now is stepping back up, no doubt due to the unpleasantness over Rick Warren. No timetable as to when — the Wash Times piece I linked suggests 2010 — but he needs to throw the left a bone and this is an easy one to throw . Skip ahead to 4:15 of the clip. It’s not hard to guess which Friend of O will be ...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Asked & Answered
The Moderate Voice —
Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs, from “Open For Questions” posted today at change.gov:
Thaddeus: Is the new administration going to get rid of the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy?
Gibbs: Thaddeus, you don?t hear a politician give a one-word answer much, but it?s yes.
More from Steve Benen and Kevin Drum.
Obama’s Press Secretary Says “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Will End
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Obama Press Secretary: We’ll Get Rid Of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Military Policies
Say Anything —
This is going to be controversial:
Personally, I’m all for ending any policy that causes gays to be treated differently from every other soldier. I think that gay troops should be able to be openly gay while they serve and only restricted by the same sort of policies the rest of the military serves under when it comes to bringing up relationships and sexual topics during service. I don’t think the military is any place for sexual advocacy, but gay troops should be able to be openly gay without fear of being dismissed.
The military has terminated ...
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Buh-Bye!
Feministing —
Check out this video from the change.gov website where Robert Gibbs says the Obama administration will get rid of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy. (It's the last question, at minute 4:17.)
Via Michelle Goldberg. ...
Phil Bronstein: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Switch Makes "Gay" the New Civil Rights Issue
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
All that greenhouse gas carbon dioxide everyone exhaled during the presidential campaign in the big debate on race may have been unnecessary air pollution.
It turns out that Barack Obama's civil rights issue is now coming clearly into focus, and it's not about race. It's about gays.
And why not? Racial divides aren't gone. But look at it from Mr. Obama's perspective when it comes to prioritizing which minority group should get his attention: He's black. Starting Tuesday, he's president. Case closed. Or he could put it this way: I am, therefore it is. Let's move on (.org) ...
Obama will end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy — but not right away.
Think Progress —
On Friday, President-elect Obama’s incoming press secretary Robert Gibbs answered public-submitted questions on Change.gov. One of those questions was on whether Obama would repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on gays serving openly in the military. Gibbs replied, “You don’t hear politicians give a one-word answer much. But it’s ‘Yes.’” Watch it:
However, CNN reports that Gibbs today expanded his answer, clarifying that the repeal won’t happen right away: ...
