Um, yeah:
On June 29, 2009, during his speech in front of an audience attending the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Pride Month Reception, held at the White House, President Obama stated "As I said before–I'll say it again–I believe 'don't ask, don't tell' doesn't contribute to our national security. In fact, I believe preventing patriotic Americans from serving their country weakens our national security."
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...when the Justice Department lawyers answered, they denied the truth of what the President had said. Specifically, when asked to admit that Don't Ask, Don't Tell "does not contribute to our national security", the government's response was "Deny." When asked to admit that Don't Ask, Don't Tell "weakens our national security", the government's response was again "Deny". And, when asked to admit that discharging service members pursuant to Don't Ask, Don't Tell "weakens our national security," the government's response was "Deny".
Shoes keep dropping on repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, it seems. Now the Obama administration's DOJ says that the President himself was wrong when he told the American people that DADT doesn't hurt national security.
Keep in mind that the President is likely aware that his administration is using his words against him in this. Unless they've just gone completely rogue, in which case I expect a lot of apologies and mass firings for this serious offense.
To be clear here: the President made a statement to a GLBT group and then allowed his DOJ to argue in court why his statement was totally inaccurate. People are often curious about why the GLBT community doesn't believe stuff that the government says. Here's an excellent example for you.
What are we supposed to believe? Now every time he goes in front of one of our groups to make a statement we're all going to have to watch the administration carefully to make sure they don't completely contradict it elsewhere! What's the point of even dealing with us? It seems like the administration is just taking extra steps there.
I don't know what the President believes personally but I don't think anyone else does, either. He's carefully avoided staking out any position on GLBT issues by taking counterintuitive and confusing actions all along the way.
I don't think we can listen to him or the DOJ anymore to find out what they believe. We have to focus on their actions and thus far it's not looking too good for this administration.