President Jimmy Carter in a television appearance tonight, touting his book about America's changing values, said that the genuine difference between Republicans and Democrats is not gay marriage or abortion but war. Military might is the basic distinction between the two parties. Democrats believe in the use of diplomacy, and force as a last resort and certainly never a pre-emptive stike against a country which has not threatened us first with an actual attack. The Republicans prefer to and do think of America first and foremost as a military power who will find it's rightful dominance in the world by the use of force, even if it means attacking a country which has not attacked us simply because at some future date they may pose a military thtreat to us. This is the ultimate shift in American values. In the last one hundred years America has been committed to seeking first and foremost a peaceful resolution. If peace is not a possibilty we have chosen to work with allies and friendships to build coalitions rather than act unilaterally. Mr. Bush's presidency has now deliberately pushed us into the camp of conqueror and empire building. This is not an American value.
Mark Morford, the San Francisco Chronicle's columnist has expressed, in a different context, the exact same sentiment. (Link to his article via this post's title) Where are the "Out" male gay athletes? Oh, sure, we now have a lesbian in pro-sports, but that never rocked the boat. Why? Because it already confirms what all those super butch guys already believed... womens' sports are dyke heaven. But a Gay Male Athlete?! Not without the very essence of what American manhood, in other words their fuckin' balls, is threatened with a quick snip. Bush and War and Queer and Athletes. Damn. It always comes back to that great fundamentalist institution, famous in America since the beginning - got it? Christianity? Nah, you're not even close: it's just the Good Ol' Boys Club, alive and well in the White House and on the NFL football field.
Mark Morford, the San Francisco Chronicle's columnist has expressed, in a different context, the exact same sentiment. (Link to his article via this post's title) Where are the "Out" male gay athletes? Oh, sure, we now have a lesbian in pro-sports, but that never rocked the boat. Why? Because it already confirms what all those super butch guys already believed... womens' sports are dyke heaven. But a Gay Male Athlete?! Not without the very essence of what American manhood, in other words their fuckin' balls, is threatened with a quick snip. Bush and War and Queer and Athletes. Damn. It always comes back to that great fundamentalist institution, famous in America since the beginning - got it? Christianity? Nah, you're not even close: it's just the Good Ol' Boys Club, alive and well in the White House and on the NFL football field.
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