{"id":183685,"date":"2012-12-20T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/20\/obama-will-definitely-nominate-hagel-for-secretary-of-defense\/"},"modified":"2012-12-20T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:08:00","slug":"obama-will-definitely-nominate-hagel-for-secretary-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/20\/obama-will-definitely-nominate-hagel-for-secretary-of-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Will Definitely Nominate Hagel for Secretary of Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do I know this, because in 1998, Chuck Hagel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/chrisgeidner\/lgbt-rights-groups-call-hagels-comments-about-gay\">aggressively gay bashed James Hormel when he was nominated to be ambassador to Luxemberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The nation&#8217;s largest LGBT rights group on Thursday called &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; comments former Sen. Chuck Hagel made in 1998 opposing a Clinton administration nominee because he was &#8220;openly aggressively gay.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The 14-year-old comments about Clinton&#8217;s nominee to be ambassador to Luxembourg, James Hormel, came to light Thursday as Hagel is a front-runner to be nominated by President Obama for defense secretary in his second term.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Human Rights Campaign spokesman Michael Cole-Schwartz also said, however, that &#8220;we do not know &#8230; how [Hagel&#8217;]s views have evolved over time&#8221; and that the group &#8220;look[s] forward to hearing from Senator Hagel on these issues should he be nominated.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Gay &amp; Lesbian Victory Fund, which works to support out LGBT presidential appointees, noted that times have changed since Hormel&#8217;s nomination.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This would not be a SecDef who will move aggressively on removing the last vestiges of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; from the military.<\/p>\n<p>His nomination, absent a <b>serious<\/b> and <b>sincere<\/b> mea culpa, would be a finger in the eye of the LGBT community, which would give Obama the sort of &#8220;Sister Souljah moment&#8221; opportunity that he loves so much, which is why I think Hagel will be nominated by Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I know this, because in 1998, Chuck Hagel aggressively gay bashed James Hormel when he was nominated to be ambassador to Luxemberg: The nation&#8217;s largest LGBT rights group on Thursday called &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; comments former Sen. Chuck Hagel made in 1998 opposing a Clinton administration nominee because he was &#8220;openly aggressively gay.&#8221;The 14-year-old comments &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,1051,1030,1006,978,982,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-hypocrisy","category-lgbtq","category-military","category-politics","category-stupid","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}