If you want an indication of what you gained with the Obama Administration, just look at this article.
The simple truth is, the administration never had any good reason to tick the GLBT community off, no good reason to abandon them. By doing what they've done, they've essentially put a bottleneck of one person for each service branch.
Yes, they'll keep enforcing DADT, that crappy piece of legislation. They'll do that because they have to, because there are plenty of other district court cases that haven't gone the way this one has. But they just made it hard as hell to get kicked out of the armed forces for being gay.
In the growing legal confusion at the Pentagon over the "don’t ask, don’t tell" law, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued a directive on Thursday that appeared to be a near moratorium on discharges of openly gay service members.
In a memorandum dated Oct. 21, Mr. Gates said that "until further notice," only five senior Defense Department officials, all civilians, would have the authority to expel openly gay service members. As the memo explained it, the relevant service secretary — either the Secretary of the Army, Navy or Air Force — has to consult with the Pentagon’s legal counsel, Jeh C. Johnson, and the undersecretary for personnel, Clifford L. Stanley, before the three can make a group decision on whether a gay service member should be forced out of the military.
Until Thursday the decision was in the hands of a far larger number of less senior military and civilian officials. The 17-year-old "don’t ask, don’t tell" law bans openly gay, lesbian and bisexual members of the United States armed forces.
Best of all, this power cannot be delegated. No, "Hey Bill! Can you help me discriminate against these three thousand gays, bisexuals, lesbians and transexuals today?"
And you know what? It's going to be very difficult to get them to set aside their regular business, just so they can fire a bunch of gay people.
This isn't a problem solved, but it certainly makes it clear whose side the Obama Administration's on, despite the appeals. They didn't have to do this. They didn't have to review this, to see whether it would hold up to legal scrutiny. They chose to do this.
I feel the Democrats are trying to destroy DADT, but they're trying to do it the right way, so it dies and stays dead. It may not always look like they're doing right by you, but then, appearance can be deceiving, especially when some people are too quick to judge the motives of this administration.