Bush Loves Gay People!

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/30/bush.gay.marriage/index.html

My favorite excerpt is:

Even as he made it clear that he did not support the idea of gay marriage, Bush appeared to issue a call for tolerance.

"Yes, I am mindful that we're all sinners," the president said Wednesday when asked for his views on homosexuality. "And I caution those who may try to take the speck out of the neighbor's eye when they've got a log in their own."

um.... so tolerance is, indeed, all about making sure to check if someone is fucking me in the eye socket before I'm too quick to clean my neighbor's face.... (?????)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

this is all some kind of pretend redneck code, right?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

That whole thing about the log is like the greatest thing any president ever in the history of mankind has ever said, what the hell does that even mean?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Georgie Log-Eye.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and I believe
we ought to codify that one way or the other and we have lawyers
looking at the best way to do that," the president said a
wide-ranging news conference at the White House Rose Garden.
one way or the other?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait till he gets truly senile.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Even as he made it clear that he did not support the idea of gay marriage, Bush appeared to issue a call for tolerance

Ah yes, the current graduate of Politician U: I'll bullshit each side, while only pleasing myself.

this is all some kind of pretend redneck code, right?

Horace, Bush is a closet redneck.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't wait till he gets truly senile.

He isn't?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

he's not really a Texan, you know.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

another bushism to add to my collection.

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Log - Eye.
Pretzel - Throat.
Gay marriage.
International terrorism.
Energy Crises.
etc.
etc.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

He must have seen that Electric Six video of him and Blair.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Tony Blair like to fuck people in the eye??

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

And I caution those who may try to take the speck out of the neighbor's eye when they've got a log in their own.

Bush has read the Sermon on the Mount! Wow. Will he ever quote "But woe to you that are rich, for you have received your consolation"?

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

EYES CAN BE LOVERS TOO

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I'll own up. I skullfucked GW Bush.

I mean, it was a DARE. I didn't enjoy it or anything.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

God, N., do you have to be so predictable?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why do you see the speck in your neighbor's eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Awesome.. it's time for a Porky's II Bible vs. Shakespeare Raunchdown!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

(Matt 19:24) "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

It worries me that if Ally was in a position of public speaking she'd come out with the same ill-informed, laughable crap that Bush does. She is happy to slag him off but from what I see she's not much brighter really.

― Calz (Calz), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/kilroy/posters/images/dontki~1.jpg

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only who worries that Bush could be a Lou Ford?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, alright, Bush even approves of Calum's people! Yay!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

What Bush needs, I've decided, is an earpiece. Then his speeches will be like that scene in Broadcast News.

I mean really, the guy has a dozen speechwriters on staff. Can't they stop him? I don't care if its a Jesus quote. There oughta be someone on hand to say, "No sir, don't say that. It sounds fucking stupid."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

For the new position of Secretary for the Department of Keeping Dubya From Sounding Like A Drunk Retard, I nominate Hank Tenbeer, er, Kenan Hebert. Everybody show him some support, he's sure got his work cut out for him!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Another great quote from that press conference: "We got Ramsey Al Sheed or whatever his name was."

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

If Bush believes that being gay is a sin (I think he does believe that; it's certainly how it sounds) but that we're "all sinners" then the gay marriage thing ISN'T a morality question - so what is it?? Do gay people represent some other civic threat?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, did people actually not recognize the speck/log reference?

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

From Readinggroupguides.com [note: italics mine]:

The Killer Inside Me is a chilling portrait of Lou Ford, the twenty-nine-year-old deputy sheriff of a small town in the oil fields of West Texas. Ford is experiencing a recurrence of "the sickness" that triggered a crime in his youth, a crime that his doctor father, now dead, covered up for him. Now Ford spends his days enforcing the law in Central City and his nights with his schoolteacher girlfriend, Amy Stanton, who also comes from a "good family." Ford's goal is to seem normal--"I've stood like that, looking nice and friendly and stupid" but something is seriously off-kilter, because "all the time I'm laughing myself sick inside" [p. 121]. The sickness that returns is worse this time, manifested in a series of sadistic murders. Jim Thompson brilliantly created a first-person voice for Lou Ford, rooting deep inside the warped psyche of this distinctive character to tell his story. Jim Thompson wrote The Killer Inside Me in 1952 for Lion Books, a publisher of paperback originals. Lion gave him a synopsis to work from, but Thompson radically changed the formula to his own, and astonished his publisher by writing the book in four weeks.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, did people actually not recognize the speck/log reference?

Apparently! (I caught it, but as an old English professor of mine once said, "In order to understand most English lit, you need to know the Bible and you should have a filthy mind.")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

why dost thou shunt me?

― mote (synkro), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Bush is trying to have it both ways -- appearing to extend a little tolerance and understanding towards homosexuals and, by using Biblical imagery, assure his supporters he's not going to do anything so radical as grant homosexuals certain civil liberties and legal protections.

Remember that a significant, and highly mobilized, percentage of the U.S. electorate believe in very conservative religions.

Horace, Bush is a closet redneck.

Whadda ya mean, closet?

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"as a Christian i love all sinners" is about as backhanded as "tolerance" gets, it's like what you'd say right before executing somebody

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

If pressures, he'd probably say that he's drawing some fine distinction along the lines of the Catholic Church's declared policy of "hate the sin but love the sinner" -- the difference between sexual orientation and the sexual acts associated with that orientation.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"as a Christian i love all sinners"
so does he love Saddam Hussein? Bill Clinton? Jimmy Swaggart? Karla Fay Tucker?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It worries me that calum feels the need to personally slag off other posters for being more intelligent than him (and a woman no less!), but not nearly as much as the thought of what calum might do the day a non-straight white male does cross his path. (pray he isn't armed)(pray the other guy is). it also amuses me to see ilx's biggest facist pretending to espouse tolerance and cosmopolitanism when anyone with half a clue knows he's as jackbooted as they come.

― spoon ered (spoon ered), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Bush is a closet blue-blood.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

the only things in Bush's closet (barely) are vulgarity and personal severeness. all the rest is quite plainly on the surface or a matter of record.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 31 July 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

lets hope so. i'd hate to think about the stuff he's actually been keeping from us. (aside from being the anti-christ, but that's fairly self evident)

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 31 July 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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