John Edwards Not Comfortable With Gays
i guess we can start asking him about "three americas" instead of two
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Gotta love those tell-all memoirs. Bob "may I be the first to call you Mr. President" Schrum, a virtual leviathan of losers, has released his, and with it an interesting anecdote:
In his new memoir, "No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner," Shrum recalls asking Edwards at the outset of that campaign, "What is your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?"
"I'm not comfortable around those people," Edwards replied, according to Shrum.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
The extensive amount of time he spends with his hairdresser serves as an offset to having to spend any time around any other gay people.
Known as Gay offsets.
And like AlGore, Edwards purchases his from a company he himself founded and only he uses.
And sometimes I feel uncomfortable around "those people" too.
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The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
~ Jeremy Bentham
...if he was referring to gay rights activists, I may actually have something that I agree with him on. Not only do their tactics kinda unsettle me, but I end up getting hit on a lot more than is honestly comfortable (why is it that they're always so convinced I'm gay? Strike one against the urban legend of the "gaydar").
All frivolity aside, I have friends who are gay, and I get along just fine with them on a congenial basis... maybe it's time to turn around the old canard that progressives like using on us and abhor them to get out into the "real world", meet people who aren't like them, and maybe they'll change their minds on things...
"To all those whom I have not yet offended: Please stand by, and I will work to remedy the situation as soon as possible."
Patiently waiting for a Fred Thompson / John Engler ticket.
Hmmmm.....
Yes... it must be quite uncomfortable to face your two biggest fears...
Competition and Temptation
"Even when you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."
Maybe he (like me) draws a difference in the gay rights folks and the average gay person. Most of my gay friends think the gay rights folks are falling off the edge of the left cliff, and they don't pay much attention to them. I don't disagree; they're definitely on the fringe.
Edwards's pollster, Harrison Hickman, who was in the room during the discussion, says Shrum "is sensationalizing and taking out of context what was an honest discussion about [Edwards's] lack of exposure to these issues and openly gay people..."
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
so Mr. Edwards feels uncomfortable around people who defined themselves and wanted to be defined by their choice of being sodomized by a member of the same sex?
It reminds me of the question I would ask Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jackie Robinson if I had a chance "When did you realize you were a black American?"
Never forget, David Souter was nominated by President George H.W. Bush
Well, stacy... thank you for using this opportunity to share your personal disdain for gay men...
Again... must be that "fear of competition" thing.
However, can you please explain how, while pondering the act of sex between two gay men, you are reminded of a wish to ask two "black Americans" to tell you when they realized they were black?
... and what does any of this have to do with a need to remember who nominated Souter?
"Even when you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."
My disdain is for the elevation of an enjoyment of sodomizing/being sodomized by a member of the same sex to the level of civil rights for blacks (and other true minorities). My quip regarding King & Robinson goes to the absurdity of the "gay American" mantra, clearly illustrating the complete lack of relation between the two despite the efforts of "gay Americans" to hoist themselves to that level in terms of their "civil rights".
And, to be clear, the "act of sex" is all that defines "gay men".
My tag line re: Souter serves as a reminder of the biggest blunder of either Bush presidency and should never be forgotten for its tragic consequences. It's relation to the issue of homosexuals....
Never forget, David Souter was nominated by President George H.W. Bush
I don't see this conversation producing a happy ending so let's just drop it.
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
Ahh... well... The definition of my personal disdain is not as complicated as yours.
"Mean people suck."
"Even when you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."
of "drop it" that was ambiguous?
"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition." -- Rudyard Kipling
This deserves its own post, but I havent gotten that sophisticated yet. I post it here because the breck girl thinks tha war on terror is a bumper sticker. I think the powers tht be have sensed the public opinion shift too much on the GWOT and they have started to release some classified stuff just too wake people up. Bush has said some important things. Now they release a previously confidential Al Quaeda torture manual - warning graphic.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture1.html
Somebody should post this as a blog and it should be in the recommended section for a long time as a true reminder of the enemy that we face.
His home life is rather insular, I would say.
feeling comfortable around them and what their "rights" might be are two totally different questions.