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If you are foolish enough to see government as a favor-dispensing agency, playing nanny to whatver group wines the loudest (and supposedly finding someone else to pay for it) then you obviously aren't willing to take on the responsibilitiy expected of the citizenry of a tested democracy.
The internal Republican folderol aside, the percentage of people who enter the voting booth more concerned with protecting what they have to lose (and I'm speaking of rights, not personal wealth) continues to increase, while the public's confidence in Obama's snake-oil economics further deteriorates.
Gay Marriage didn't really start to settle with the mainstream public until the beginning of 1990s, and Obama is the first president that didn't grow up in the Antebellum South and isn't a Republican/Religious Wingnut.
So this comes as no surprise.
The sample size is so small that there's no point in mentioning this useless fact.
It'll be like saying New York City has the best mass transit system in the USA. Of course it does, no other US city has a mass transit system nearly as extensive as New York's.
Oh, and William Rufus DeVane King was NOT President Buchanan's Vice President. King was briefly Vice President of the United States under Franklin Pierce, but had to resign because of poor health.
More and more evidence is turning up that Abraham Lincoln had gay tendencies. Even as early as the 1920's and '30's one of Lincoln's most distinguished biographers, the poet Carl Sandberg, described Honest Abe as "having a streak of lavender in him." Well, it could be said that Lincoln was married and produced children, but the same could be said of Oscar Wilde and zillions of other gay and bisexual men and women. C.A. Tripp, a noted psychiatrist, theorized Lincoln was gay in a biography.
Not only presidents, but at least one First Lady as well: Eleanor Roosevelt, had very close romantic feelings for a woman friend. If fact her love letters have brought this relationship to light.
I don't buy it on Lincoln. The best evidence they ever used for his being gay was his sharing a bed with a man once. This was a common occurrence back then. They also point to some letters where they say he was I guess too personal or whatever,but that was the writing of the time. Who knows?
Eleanor Roosevelt was a lesbian. No doubt about that. FDR accepted it,and even built a house for her and her friends on their property.
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