[Lysistrata]

Good for him if he is. It's about time America had a homosexual president.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/4/13036/20280

http://www.bettybowers.com/isbushgay.html

[Zimphire]

[CreepingDeth]

Why do we need a homosexual President?

So I guess he's a gay man who's never had gay sex, has a wife and kids, but also backs amendments banning gay marriage.
Enigma, I guess.

[macvillage.net]

Originally posted by CreepingDeath:
Why do we need a homosexual President?

So I guess he's a gay man who's never had gay sex, has a wife and kids, but also backs amendments banning gay marriage.
Enigma, I guess.

Jim McGreevey in NJ also has a wife and a kid.

Doesn't mean you can't be gay.

McGreevey also backed a law to provide rights for same sex couples... which was really a fake out: The law provides the same rights for heterosexual couples over 62 years of age... this was done as a sunset clause. The law is technically illegal on the basis of age discrimination, but closes the topic of homosexual rights until after the election season (avoiding a controversy he didn't want to be having). It's not a law that will be used (already serveral groups are preparing to challenge it in court).

[Zimphire]

Anyone that thinks Bush is gay is a certifiable moron.

As far as McGreevey goes, most in NJ new he was gay before he came out.

Him coming out was just a PR stunt to try to hide the other stuff he was doing.

[SimeyTheLimey]

I know Dorothy.
Dorothy is a friend of mine.
George W Bush is no friend of Dorothy.

[Zimphire]

If the second page were to be written by a Righty, and he was talking about say, Kerry, and it was posted in here. There would be at least 5 accusations of homophobia going about in here by now.

[PacHead]

If Bush were really gay, then why aren't all the gays on the left voting for him ? That's where most of them are anyhow.

[CreepingDeth]

Proof!

[macvillage.net]

Originally posted by CreepingDeath:
Proof!

[dreilly1]

You all do realize that the second page is a joke, right? bettybowers.com is run by the same people who run landoverbaptist.com. (or, at least, the people who run those sites must be in cahoots, since they mention each other all the time...)

You remember Landover Baptist, right? They're the ones who said that OS X was the tool of the devil because it was called "Darwin" and you had to type "chmod 666" to open up all your files.

As for the first link about the book, it looks like outrageous fiction to me, which only loonies would take seriously. And I don't even like Bush very much.

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey:
I know Dorothy.
Dorothy is a friend of mine.
George W Bush is no friend of Dorothy.

Where does this phrase come from? This is the first I have heard it.
Although it reminds me of Alcoholics Anonymous and the "friend of
Bill W" secret greeting members could use to greet one another in
public.

Is it a reference to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz tying in the whole
Judy Garland, loves show tunes stereotype. Enquiring minds want to know?

[Lysistrata]

More details on book about Fabulous George, America's Gay President:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1207361/posts
A Kitty Surprise? (Kitty Kelly to "Out" Bush in New Book?)
Roger Simon ^ | 9/3/04

NEW YORK - - Republican insiders have been huddling in small groups at the Republican Convention this week and talking about what worries them most. It is not John Kerry. It is not the unemployment numbers. It is not Iraq.

It is Kitty Kelley.

Kelley has a new book coming out in a few weeks titled "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty” and it is rumored to be explosive.

One source tells me there are “at least five bombshells” contained in it and another source says there is allegedly new material on President Bush’s service in the Air National Guard.

Democrats have long been worried about a Republican “October Surprise” such as the capture of Osama bin Laden. But now some Republicans are worried that Kelley’s book will be the equivalent of an October surprise and harmful to President Bush’s re-election hopes.

Why are GOP operatives taking such a book seriously? After all, some critics have dismissed Kelley’s previous books as the equivalent of tabloid journalism. But in November 2000, the Bush campaign’s internal polling showed that revelations about Bush’s 1976 arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol damaged him badly with religious conservatives and some analysts believe it cost him a popular vote victory.

So this time, Bush operatives don’t want any more big surprises, revelations, rumors or gossip to make a media splash just weeks before the election.

Which is why they are so nervous. According to the Associated Press, the Kelley opus - - it is supposed to be around 700 pages long - - is being billed as "the book the Bushes don't want you to read,” it has a first printing of 600,000 and “a virtual guarantee to annoy, if not embarrass, Bush supporters.”

In the past, Kelley has written books about Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra and the British Royal Family among others and her books have often contained explosive material. Kelley’s facts are sometimes challenged, but her books tend to make a big splash nonetheless.

Kelley’s 1991 book on Nancy Reagan, for example, which contained scandalous accusations, was the subject of a front page story in the New York Times by Maureen Dowd.

“Ms. Kelley has developed a reputation as a giant killer for her sensational books about the rich and famous,” Dowd wrote. “She wrote that Jacqueline Kennedy had shock treatments; that President John F. Kennedy's retarded sister, Rosemary, had a lobotomy, and that Frank Sinatra's mother was a New Jersey abortionist.”

Dowd went on: “Ms. Kelley asserts that Mrs. Reagan will go down in history as the cold and glittering icon for a morally vacuous era. The author says the former First Lady reinvented herself with a tissue of fabrications about her background, age and family, just as her free-spirited mother did before her; that she had her nose fixed and her eyes lifted; that both the Reagans had extramarital affairs, and that Mrs. Reagan had a long-term affair with Frank Sinatra.”

The article quoted Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, as saying that "no friend of Nancy Reagan's is going to read that scummy book."

Perhaps, but plenty of other people did read it and many more read about it. And this, remember, was in an era before 24-hour cable TV and media with an insatiable appetite for news, gossip, rumor, innuendo or whatever they can get.

It may turn out, of course, that Kelley’s new book contains nothing damaging to President Bush.

But with their convention going so well, Republicans have to find something to worry about this week.

[Lysistrata]

A typical picture of America's flamboyantly homosexual president, demonstrating fisting with a friend

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by Lysistrata:
A typical picture of America's flamboyantly homosexual president, joking with his sailor friends[/img]

An interesting question: what would offend an Air Force Academy cadet more, the inference that he is gay, or that he is a sailor?

[SimeyTheLimey]

Originally posted by dcmacdaddy:
Where does this phrase come from? This is the first I have heard it.
Although it reminds me of Alcoholics Anonymous and the "friend of
Bill W" secret greeting members could use to greet one another in
public.

Is it a reference to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz tying in the whole
Judy Garland, loves show tunes stereotype. Enquiring minds want to know?

I take it you mean "friend of Dorothy" rather than my Lloyd Bentsen spoof. I don't know that anyone knows who originated it, but I have heard theories very much you suggest. Some speculate that the phrase was a bit like a secret handshake or code phrase that could be used openly without straights realizing what was actually being communicated. "Gay" supposedly originated in the same way. "Family" is still used that way.

As you suggest there is the show tunes thing. Obviously, it comes from The wizard of Oz, which is a pretty camp movie if ever there was one. The Wizard of Oz is about escape from reality to a fabulous world "over a rainbow." I think it is understandable how people forced to lead essentially double lives might see themselves in it. There is also some bizarre cult of Judy Garland among a certain generation of gay men. The Stonewall Riots broke out when the cops raided the Stonewall Inn just as a group were in it mourning her death. A strange way for a liberation movement to break out, but true.