Politics makes for fun bedfellows

[Rick Munroe]

(I hope this doesn't get banished to the Politics section just for mentioning the word "politics." :o )

 

I spent a really nice overnight with a client I hadn't seen in quite a while (he had a boyfriend in the interim). I like this guy a lot, and enjoy being with him (so I was kinda glad he's single again; I know, selfish of me). Anyway, I don't recall if it was during dinner or while basking in the afterglow, but I made some comment about Bush and he said something like, "You liberals are always..." and that's when I realized that we were on opposite sides politically (the subject had never come up before; I guess we'd been too busy using our mouths fer a-kissin'). Anyway, the nice thing was that it didn't descend into the nasty/angry level of discourse one tends to see here in the Politics forum, or that one sees in general these days in our deeply divided country.

 

My point is not how wonderful my client and I are, but rather, simply, how nice it is when we can respect and appreciate each others' differences of opinion and still be friends and lovers.

[Boston Guy]

Agreed.

 

One of my best friends, and one of the people I respect most, is an arch-conservative. Not a religious-righty, but a traditional dyed-in-the-wool conservative. We virtually never agree on politics but respect each other's opinions (except, of course, those times when we're telling each other that we're full of crap...).

 

He's also a conservative in the sense that he thinks the government should stay out of people's bedrooms, that sexuality is up to each of us, that you should respect your friends and neighbors and that "hell, I think gay people should be allowed to marry: if they want to join all of us downtrodden husbands, the more the merrier!"

 

Sometimes I learn something from our conversations; sometimes I see him shift his thinking a bit. But we never alter our basic respect for each other.

 

Regards,

BG

[Candyman]

YOU KISSED A REPUBLICAN??????????????

Talk about your unsafe sex

[eastbayguy]

>My point is not how wonderful my client and I are, but rather,

>simply, how nice it is when we can respect and appreciate each

>others' differences of opinion and still be friends and

>lovers.

 

Isn't it sad that we can no longer debate and discuss the relative merits of the positions of politicians? When did anger and shrill rhetoric replace good debating skills?

 

I should post an essay by Garrisson Keillor that's making the rounds about what's wrong with politics. Garrisson Keillor is someone who can certainly express themselves well.

 

--EBG

[basket]

It seems to me that one could take his anger towards Bush and channel itinto a really hard fucking of a Bush supporter. It would be similar to the sex couples have to make up after a fight, real, intense, and hot!

[Lankypeters]

But what Republican would anyone want to fuck? Dick Cheney? Maybe to show him how great it feels to get fucked up the ass. He might get so excited he'd have a cardiac moment. Or ask to be taken to an undisclosed location where he and a bodyguard could get it off.

 

Dems are another matter. Anyone seen the hunky shots of John Edwards when he played high school football? He had to be a tight end. Something (hope?) tells me the veep candidate is really hung.

 

 

Lankypeters

[Lankypeters]

But what Republican would anyone want to fuck? Dick Cheney? Maybe to show him how great it feels to get fucked up the ass. He might get so excited he'd have a cardiac moment. Or ask to be taken to an undisclosed location where he and a bodyguard could get it off.

 

Dems are another matter. Anyone seen the hunky shots of John Edwards when he played high school football? He had to be a tight end. Something (hope?) tells me the veep candidate is really hung.

 

 

Lankypeters

[+ bigjoey]

i'll take bush's nephew pierce bush; if someone here has more computer talent than i, they can post a picture of the young hottie.

[Guest zipperzone]

>i'll take bush's nephew pierce bush; if someone here has more

>computer talent than i, they can post a picture of the young

>hottie.

 

Where were you a few days ago when we had the exhaustive discussion re Pierce and came to the conclusion that his eyes were too close together - or was that too far apart?