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Advocate.com December 21, 2010
Obama: "Prepared to Implement"
ADVOCATE EXCLUSIVE OBAMA INTERVIEW: President Obama tells The Advocate the Pentagon is "prepared to implement" repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," and it will take months not years. He also says he's "wrestling" with the issue of marriage equality.
By Kerry Eleveld
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Potentially in the course of your presidency in the next two years?
Well, look, I would distinguish between things that should get done and I fully support but may still be stalled with a Republican-controlled Congress — or Republican-controlled House of Representatives that's not inclined to go there, versus things that can happen in society at large.
I have been struck — let me take the former — repealing DOMA, getting [the Employment Non-Discrimination Act] done, those are things that should be done. I think those are natural next steps legislatively. I'll be frank with you, I think that's not going to get done in two years. I think that's — we're on a three- or four-year time frame unless there's a real transformation of attitudes within the Republican caucus.
