I agree this is not a helpful article, but for different reasons.
First, Monica Lewinsky was a low-level person as well. Sometimes powerful people are attracted to other powerful people (JFK and Marilyn Monroe, for example.) Other times, powerful people want to use, abuse, and manipulate low-level people who won't talk, or who won't be believed if they do talk. Just how many young interns have mothers who are so perverted that they advise their daughter to keep semen-stained dresses to prove sexual involvement if needed? Bill Clinton would have gotten away with what he did with Monica Lewinski, just as he probably had done with many other women, if it hadn't been for the fact that he finally met his match in somebody even more worldly than himself.
Second, and more important, all of these rumors about Barack Obama being a closeted homosexual are not helpful in defeating him two months from now. Maybe he's homosexual. Maybe he's not. Barring something really radical, we're not going to be able to prove it either way before the November elections, and focusing on this kind of thing risks making us look like conspiracy theorists or people who are grasping at straws because we don't care about facts. Let's focus on his open-and-out positions on economic issues, national defense issues, and social issues — including his pro-homosexual policies — things about which there is no doubt where he stands and what he has done.
That wasn't her mother's advice. It was Linda Tripp's.
Good point. Kal's performances on and off screen makes me think he'd probably be someone higher-ups would avoid, but that's just my subjective impression.
Second, and more important, all of these rumors about Barack Obama being a closeted homosexual are not helpful in defeating him two months from now. Maybe he's homosexual. Maybe he's not. Barring something really radical, we're not going to be able to prove it either way before the November elections, and focusing on this kind of thing risks making us look like conspiracy theorists or people who are grasping at straws because we don't care about facts. Let's focus on his open-and-out positions on economic issues, national defense issues, and social issues — including his pro-homosexual policies — things about which there is no doubt where he stands and what he has done.
Very good point, and well put. My own opinion is that there's not much to these stories -- the gay music director at the church is murdered and all of a sudden he becomes Obama's lover without any real evidence of a relationship, or somebody reads "body person" or "body guard" and thinks lover, even though all Presidents and candidates have people in those roles -- but you get at the heart of the matter: the rumors aren't going to be proved or disproved before the election; they make us look like conspiracy theorists; and they distract from the issues that really important and that mean victory or defeat at the polls.