The Advocate asks Hillary 'Are you a lesbian?'

"There's nothing wrong with being gay or lesbian. I don't happen to be a lesbian, though."

- Abraham Lincoln.

There is nothing wrong with being gay.  It is why so many have made the choice.  (ok bad joke)  But it does seem like an enlightened view and well the Republicans aren't playing to the enlightened audience.  They play to the self centered and gullible.  The self centered vote with their pocketbooks.  The gullible vote with their ignorance.

Rich gay and black people are self-explanatory.

Stupid/gullible/ignorant is an open class and filled with many self-loathing people voting at cross purposes. 

One of the funniest things about the Larry/bathroom thing was his denial. "I am not now nor have I ever been gay.  I love my wife." It looked like he was thinking ,"What else would a spright man say?"  This is so sad to me.

In playing to the fundamentalist Christian crowd, who have been lead away from Christ, they have bred intolerance among the easily convinced.

Although I too claim I am a Christian, I blame Billy Gram.

God is love and God's love is for us all.

God Bless

Does that have any bearing on how good/bad a President she'd be?  While I appreciate that GBLTQAetc. issues are factors in this election, I think there are greater issues that they need to concentrate on.

Incidentally, I wonder what would happen if they had a multi-racial lesbian with kids as a candidate?

has always intrigued me.  Not the lady herself, who I find very Bright if not terribly articulate and I understand works very hard.  No what interests me is the visceral reaction people have to her.  Because it's nearly always that, visceral, emotive, subjective.  In some fora, including this one, she is taken to task on the issues (though I thought the Advocate headline posted above somewhat disingenuous), but  the general reaction to her seems always to be from the gut.  Redact her name from donal's piece above and you could substitute almost any other candidate's name and it would be true.  Why should Clinton be any different? 

Politicians run to get elected, it's what they do, and this requires vast sums.  They say, do, promise, what they can to procure those sums.  They then have a short window in the ludicrously short and ineffective legislative cycle to pay back that money to ensure more for the next round.  Their priorities are to get in office and stay in office.  Some may then hope to do some reasonable service to their country, but they don't have a lot of time to do it, and much of that is spent scraping what they can from the pork barrel to ensure the re-election.  Thus does the cycle feed itself.  Clinton is a master of the game, but she is not alone.  Yet we heap scorn on her for doing what all the rest of them do.  Did we expect anything different because she's a woman?  It will be interesting to see what happens next time a woman throws her coiffe into the ring. 

In any case, I don't think she or Obama will win next year, though that's a joint ticket I'd like to see, in the same way I'd like to see a black lesbian jew get elected Pope.  It would signal that America has grown up enough about sex, race and politics to deserve a competent woman or a black man at the helm.  It's a bit pathetic that the leading nation of the democratic world isn't ready for it when more conservative places like Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Phillipines, Iceland, Nicaragua, Ireland, India, Chile and Sri Lanka have all been there, done that. 

I don't necessarily think that the question posed by the Advocate is a bad one. Let's face it - Hillary Clinton is running for President of the United States and she will be dealing with rumors and innuendo far more devastating than whether she is or is not a lesbian.

Clinton's response was telling. Unlike many straight men who respond defensively to  any questions about their same-sex attractions, Senator Clinton simply answered the question as honestly as she could and then moved on. She didn't plead "out-of-bounds" and felt no need to highlight her heterosexuality as a response to the rumors. Yet another example of how Hillary Clinton has the integrity, intelligence, emotional maturity and self-awareness to be a truly remarkable world leader. She has my vote.