"Our First Black President?" (New York Times)

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/magazine/06wwln-essay-t.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/magazine/06wwln-essay-t.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Maybe he was elected before my grandfather could vote, and maybe he was a Republican.</p>

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<p>Hummmm…veeery interesting…
Not that surprising, though.</p>

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<p>I like the term “openly black” to describe Obama. </p>

<p>I cringe when Bill Clinton is called the first black president because surely by that criterion our first black president was Abraham Lincoln. How could Toni Morrisson have overlooked that?</p>

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<p>Well, Harding was 60 years after our first gay President, though the word “gay” or “homosexuality” hadn’t been invented yet.</p>

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<p>Have historians proven irrefutably that Lincoln was gay? I don’t think so.</p>

<p>J. Edgar Hoover is the one we are positive is gay.
Or was he the crossdresser?</p>

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<p>James Buchanan, the bachelor president.</p>

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<p>Historians have proven irrefutable that Lincoln spent more than a decade in bed with a man, long after he could have afforded his own, and wrote steamy loveletters to him for almost a decade later.</p>

<p>As to whether he was gay, the word didn’t exist. His feelings, as he expressed them himself, would clearly indicate a passionate love for another person of the same gender. As to what they did in bed, or what provoked the steamy love-letters, well, I was no more in his bedroom than I am in bedrooms of gay folks today.</p>

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<p>Buchanan, also never proven gay, token adult.</p>

<p>Interesting Mini. I thought I saw a book review in tomorrow’s time’s also questioning Lincoln’s sexual preferences.</p>

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<p>Now the legality or legitimacy of the Clintons’ renting of the Lincoln Bedroom makes perfect sense.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E5D61439F93AA35752C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2[/url]”>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E5D61439F93AA35752C0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>“Historians have proven irrefutable that Lincoln spent more than a decade in bed with a man, long after he could have afforded his own, and wrote steamy loveletters to him for almost a decade later.”</p>

<p>Are you sure they weren’t writing the Gettysburg
Address?</p>

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<p>I turned up Buchanan’s name by putting the phrase “first gay president” into Google after mini’s first post here. I make no claim that any of this stuff is historically verified.</p>