{"id":4210,"date":"2009-07-08T23:56:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T23:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2010-06-16T03:50:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:50:28","slug":"obama-lied-dont-ask-dont-tell-bob-kisken-editorial-rachel-maddow-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2009\/07\/08\/obama-lied-dont-ask-dont-tell-bob-kisken-editorial-rachel-maddow-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Lied &#8211; Don&#039;t Ask, Don&#039;t Tell &#8211; Bob Kisken Editorial &#8211; Rachel Maddow Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach Discharged For Being Gay &#8211; Rachel Maddow Show<\/h3>\n<p>VIDEO REMOVED<\/p>\n<h3>Caspar Star-Tribune &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trib.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/15\/editorial\/letters\/7219f12cce3b0e38872575d500211228.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Kisken Editorial Letter<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>Editor:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach has served 18 years in the Air Force. He is the recipient of at least 30 awards and decorations, including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>The Air Force is about to discharge him because he is gay. What insanity.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>Sen. Barry Goldwater had this to say years ago:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>&#8220;After more than 50 years in the military and politics, I am still amazed to see how upset people can get over nothing. Lifting the ban on gays in the military isn&#8217;t exactly nothing, but it&#8217;s pretty damned close.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>&#8220;Everyone know that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. They&#8217;ll be serving long after we&#8217;re all dead and buried. That should not surprise anyone.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>Too bad some of the people in Washington don&#8217;t have the sense Sen. Goldwater did.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><strong>ROBERT KISKEN, Glenrock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankjump.com\/stamps3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.frankjump.com\/dontask.jpg?resize=500%2C708\" alt=\"\u00a9 Frank H. Jump\" width=\"500\" height=\"708\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/em><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/div.header --><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Dismay Over Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8217; Turnabout<br \/>\nBy <span>Mark Thompson \/ Washington &#8211;<\/span> <span>Tuesday, Jun. 09, 2009<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) demonstrate against the Defense Department's \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/daily\/2009\/0906\/dont_ask_0608.jpg?resize=307%2C200\" alt=\"Members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) demonstrate against the Defense Department's \" width=\"307\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Timothy A. Clary \/ AFP \/ Getty<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) demonstrate against the Defense Department&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy in front of a recruitment center in Times Square, New York City &#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1903545,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">TIME.COM<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach Discharged For Being Gay &#8211; Rachel Maddow Show VIDEO REMOVED Caspar Star-Tribune &#8211; Bob Kisken Editorial Letter Editor: Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach has served 18 years in the Air Force. He is the recipient of at least 30 awards and decorations, including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,177,442,585,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act-up","category-bob-kisken","category-dont-ask-dont-tell","category-frank-h-jump","category-us-commemorative-stamps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-15U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}