Making Him Deliver

A post by dday at Hullabaloo and one from John Aravosis at AmericaBlog, which together point out one thing I've been saying, even if I didn't say it outright: Obama now has to be pushed to deliver.

From Aravosis:

Yesterday, the Obama transition team chose to include a question about DADT in their weekly online Q&A with incoming White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. In that Q&A, Gibbs reads a question from Thaddeus in Lansing, Michigan. Thaddeus asks:

"Is the new administration going to get rid of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy?"

Gibbs answers:

"Thaddeus, you don't hear a politician give a one-word answer much, but it's 'Yes.'"

Why is this significant? Because they affirmatively chose to include that question in this week's Q&A - it didn't just come up by chance.

The next question, of course, is "When?"

Having said that, at some point words aren't enough. I sincerely hope the Obama team is preparing to actually lift the ban, and preparing for just how they're going to do it while avoiding the calamity that befell Clinton. They also need to figure out when they're going to do it.

We'll see.

But the lesson is clear: the man needs heat applied to make a commitment and to deliver on it.