I looked at the results of the recent blog "who was the worst president?" And NO SURPRISE, the men who follow this blog chose either Nixon or Bush. I'm no so sure that these presidents were chosen because they were so bad or because the bloq writer excluded many other even worse presidents. I'll some benefit of the doubt and say that the writer was targeting only those preseidents who would have been in office when a current gay man would have been alive, and NOT looking at a historical perspective. Well and good! but Limiting and limited!
I suspect it's because both Nixon and Bush were checked off because they are republicans and the average gay man is a steeped in the wool liberal democratic. My sense is that many gays are interested in only one political thing and that is "legalization of same sex marriage". By the way, I'm not so sure that Nixon ever posited on "same sex marriage". I'll be corrected if I'm in error.
I'd be interested in hearing what a more moderate democrats or what that rare gay republican would have selected. And by the bye, there were(are) 44 presidents--some a lot worse than the those on the pre-selected list.
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Well I took a little time to think about how to respond to your question. Fist I would like to know who you thought were bad presidents as you fail to reveal that in your message. I think you paint with a very broad brush when you assume that many gay men today are only interested in gay marriage. It is not the gay community that is interested in gay marriage but the organized religeous organizations that are interested in gay marriage. Most gay men are more interested in equal rights that are guarnateed to each and every one of us under the constitution. Protecting the sanctity of marriage is a smoke screen. If the organiezed religeous leaders truly wanted to protect marriage they would have been outraged when the states passed lwas requiring that befor e anyone gets married they have to get permission from the states. They also should look at statistics of child abuse by parents and the high rate of divorce but that is not what concerns them it is protecting their own organized money machines. Why is the church silent for the last several years when wall street robbed trillions from their own members and put thousands of people out of their jobs and homes? If I remember my up bringing wasn't it Jesus that went to the church and through out the money lenders from the church? I don't understand why the church stands silent when millions of people occupy the streets around the world demanding a more fair world and to stop the pillaging by the top earners of the world? So to get back to your question of who are my choices for bad presidents? I would select Nixon, Reagan and the last Bush. Nixon broke the law, Reagan removed all regulations for the money lenders so that they could rob the little guy at will and Bush started a way that should have never been fought.
You could believe that and it well might be true. After all with the war waged on gays for the last 20 years by the Republicans not surprising they don't have too many fans. Rick Santorum currently seems to think our having sex is the same as fucking a dog. Perhaps he is a fan of puppy play. Richard Nixon gets my vote because he came close to causing a constitutional crisis and did send the nation into months and months of wasted time simply because he like Bill Clinton was unable to quote Rick Perry, "oops". Bush is a 2nd runner up because he started a war which cost us a trillion dollars and wasted hundreds of youthful lives searching for weapons his aides knew weren't there to begin with. Clinton while he did much good with Republican support such as reforming welfare also put the country through a useless exercise because "I didn't have sex with that woman". I am not a Republican or a Democrat and usually find myself voting for the least of two bad choices. I even voted for Ross Perot and hoped he wouldn't win. He would have turned into a dictator or once again put the country into constitutional tug of war. Carter while he had many good ideas and had they come to fruition the country would have been better off. However he was politically inept and unable to manage the legislative process to accomplish anything. So my friend Nixon and Bush are at the top of my list but not because they are Republicans. They are just the worst of a large group of choices.