Kanye West: Poster Child of the Left...

The link: http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1554485,00.html

We've already heard Kanye's deft reproaches of George W. Bush after hurricane Katrina. Clearly this is a very aware, politically savvy man, with a strong sense of appropriateness and decorum.

"If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility," West said, according to the Associated Press. Later, he said, "I had the best video. 'Touch the Sky' was a great moment in TV."

There's something familliar about that perspective, isn't there? It's pretty much the Democrats attitude on elections. As far as they are concerned, there are only two kinds of elections: ones they win, and ones that are rigged. The Democrats don't believe they've ever lost an election. They've only had them stolen from them via fraud, vote suppression, etc.

In short, if Democrats don't win, democracy and elections lose credibility.

Kanye, you and John Kerry must be Republican plants. How else can one explain the way these two guys spend every waking our trying to make “being retarded” and “being critical of President Bush” appear synonymous?

posted on Saturday, November 04, 2006 5:03 PM

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# re: Kanye West: Poster Child of the Left... 11/6/2006 10:57 AM Typer of pink text from 24.19.46.198

Jack Balkin writes:

Viewed from Ted Haggard's perspective-- a man who, despite his shame and guilt, is attracted to other men-- gay marriage and the gay lifestyle really are a threat to heterosexual relationships and heterosexual marriage. That is because they are a threat to his heterosexual identity and his heterosexual marriage. He knows the Devil is always tracking him, waiting for him to slip up. That is because he conceptualizes his sexual desires as sin and as alienation from God, and not as the expressions of something that might actually become valuable to him if accepted them as part of himself. If Haggard accepted that he was bi-sexual or even gay, and that it was morally permissible to be either of these things, he would have to change his understandings of his own desires and what they mean. He would have to view himself and his relationship to God very differently. But he has not been able to accept these things, because he is closeted from himself. That is why he has been a vocal opponent of people he has a great deal in common with.

I don't know how many of the fiercest opponents of gay rights in the religious community have some same-sex desires. I only know that it makes perfect sense that among the very religious those with same-sex desires will be among the most vehement denouncers of gays. It is not simply hypocrisy-- it is also lack of self-knowledge.

The Haggard story is a story not only about Haggard, but about America itself. We are a country with many gay and bi-sexual people who won't accept that it is morally ok to be gay or bi-sexual. Therefore we as a nation hate ourselves, fear ourselves, fight ourselves and try to banish ourselves from the face of the earth. It should be obvious enough that such a strategy is doomed to failure, but the real tragedy is how long-- and at what cost in human suffering-- it will take us to recognize it.

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