Posted on 01/08/2005 2:31:53 PM PST by quidnunc
Kennedy had an aid named Lincoln.
And they were all gay. < /sarcasm >
LOL! Well there you go-I rest my case.
Richard Brookhiser, who wrote the review, is too wimpy, though. He's a Manhattan conservative writing for a very liberal publication, and doesn't want to offend anyone. Philip Nobile, who wrote this article, is much more upfront and devastating in his charges against Tripp.
Surrounding the history we learned in school, there's an awful lot of unsubstantiated rumor and speculation. The text books aren't always right, but it's so easy for people who have something to prove to swim or drown in those seas of unproven anecdotes and unverified conclusions. And that seems to be what Tripp has done. He's like the too hungry predator that seizes on every scrap or crumb of food and ends up in a trap which the careful animal escapes.
Ours is "Beavis and Butthead" culture, and plenty of people are almost permanently stupified until they hear something that sounds salacious that and pricks up their ears and rouses them a little out of their stupor. The gay lobby is going to push this book, but I doubt Tripp's work will stand up on its own. As Nobile shows, there are a lot of wholes and leaps in his hypothesis.
Uh-oh! My husband only has MALE friends. Not a woman among them. Should I be concerned, too? :-O
I believe that young Mary Todd was supposed to have been a cute little button.
Every generation in turn assassinates Mr Lincoln!!
Not from the pictures I have seen...She looks like a homely woman.
Real heterosexual men can't have women as friends. Remember the movie "When Harry Met Sally"? (tongue-in-cheek)
Abe Lincoln was a god-fearing man who loved the Lord and was a practicing christian when he went to be the Lord.
Furthermore, just because he slept in the same bed with other guys when he was young (if this is true) was probably due to financial constrictions. Back in his day they didn't have 5 bedroom homes for everyone in the nation like we do now! Back then everyone Brothers and sisters all shared the same room most of the time when they were younger. Heck, the size of the home was as big as my living room is now, and my living measures 15x20 feet!!!!
Larry Kramer says to C.A. Tripp: "For the sake of humanity, please, gays need a role model." Pathetic reason to distort history.
$50 says this guy is banned within the next few months.
Why?
Another Dixiecrat bites the dust.
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