Yes, Maureen Dowd, We've Already Had a Gay President: James Buchanan

[pgodbold]

“Maureen Dowd, in her December 19th column ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19dowd.html?_r=1&hp ), muses on the possibility of a gay Commander in Chief in the wake of the passage of the repeal of DADT. In Dowd's commentary, Congressman Barnie Frank points out that we've already had a gay president: James Buchanan. BuzzFlash blogger Harvey Wasserman provides the details.”

“As "conservatives" scream and yell about gays in the military, they might remember that in all likelihood we have already had a gay Commander-in-Chief.”

“With no Moral Majority or Bible thumping fundamentalists to plague them, the King-Buchanan liaison was generally embraced as a political and personal fact of life in a nation consumed with real issues of life and death, freedom and slavery.”

Full story on Buzz Flash: http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12111

[TomClash]

1. And maybe Abe Lincoln

And maybe GWB. After all, was there any other reason for Jeff Gannon to spend the night at the White House?

[davidinalameda]

7. if posts could be pulled for being idiotic

yours would be pulled

[TomClash]

8. Why is that?

The sole response to this post isn't exactly enlightening. :eyes:

[closeupready]

14. I don't see it. Nope.

Post makes sense to everyone else.

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. The Lincoln speculation is interesting and....

... not w/o foundation.

I guess no one really cares much about GWB's sexuality.

Speculation ( of any variety) about Lincoln is interesting 'cause *Lincoln* is interesting.

GWB doesn't invite or excite the same sort of curiosity. For obvious reasons. ( e.g. Who cares?, for one.)

[TomClash]

13. I agree

Except GWB would be interesting for the hypocrisy.

[Smarmie Doofus]

15. Even THAT wouldn't make him interesting.

Besides... is there anyone on the planet who DOESN'T know he's a hypocrite?

[eridani]

11. Abe and Shrub were bisexual n/t

[emulatorloo]

2. Hey isn't that the person who made fun of Gore for wearing brown pants?

And being smart?

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Dowd is a a whiney twit...

[emulatorloo]

4. I know it is wrong to hold a grudge. I need to get past it

LOL

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Me too....lol

[thereismore]

6. But he didn't tell and no one asked! nt

[Smarmie Doofus]

9. And that's kind of a shame, no? n/t

[eridani]

12. We've already had women presidents also (in a sense)

Edith Wilson and Nancy Reagan.