Martin Eisenstadt’s Blog

I hear from sources in the administration that Obama, in response to accusations that he’s all talk and no action, has come up with a grand plan to solve the gay and Afghanistan problems with one proverbial golf swing. Apparently, the homosexual community will no longer accept “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. They are demanding the right to proudly and publicly travel to far away lands and be killed. Which after intense consultations across the aisle appears to be okay even with the right wing.  Problem solved.  The generals get their Afghanistan surge, the right gets to see America’s homosexual population reduced and the left gets to feel like Barack is listening to them.   Thank you again dear leader for teaching us the value of compromise.

Naturally, we here at the Harding Institute recognized over a year ago the value in actively recruiting gay troops into the military. Some of you may remember seeing our Marine recruiting video several months ago. It was commissioned under the Bush administration, then quietly classified, and then in May was declassified by the Obama regime. We were admonished to not discuss the reasons for why the Bush team scuttled the video initially, but now it’s clear that it was de-classified as a shrewd move by Robert Gates to start recruiting gay Marines specifically for the Afghanistan mission. Were we used as a pawn by the Obama/Gates regime?  Maybe.  But as I said earlier, if everyone’s happy with this new policy, then who are we to object.  And by the way, over 30,000 people have watched this video since it was declassified in May and it is the top ranked video on YouTube if you search “Marine recruiting.”