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Presidential Impersonators

I have done a lot of serious topics lately, so I thought that I would throw in some presidential humor to lighten things up. Hope you enjoy!

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Star Jones Gets a Prank Call

Star Jones received a prank call on her Radio One talk show. It's an unfortunate event, but Star makes the best of it.

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Has Jackson Become the White Woman He's Always Wanted To Be?

I was just browsing around the Internet when I discovered this picture of Michael Jackson dressed as a woman. Well, at least that's what people are purporting to say in this picture taken in St Tropaz, France. I don't know if this is him, though it looks a hell of a lot like him, nevertheless it's entertaining.

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Fact or Fiction? Two Gay U.S. Presidents

Have Americans Unknowingly Elected Two Gay Presidents?I

I have known about rumors of Lincoln's homosexuality for sometime now. Ever since C.A. Tripp wrote "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln" in 2005, I have held steadfast onto the belief that homosexuality was more rampant in nineteenth century life. How soon we forget that since in those days, "gay" did not exist. This absence of a gay class, if you will, allows for people to live out a homosexual lifestyle without attracting unwanted hostile attention. In the twentieth century, the development of a social class of "gays" has made gays susceptible to attack and spotlighting. I was looking around the Internet and to my astonishment, Lincoln is the not the only president whose sexuality is in question.

President Lincoln 
"While he may not have been gay, Lincoln did share a double bed with an attractive younger man, Joshua Fry Speed, for four years. Certain homosexual writers state outright that Lincoln was bisexual, but there is no actual evidence to this effect other than assumed innuendo and wishful thinking. And the men gave each other advice with regards to their women problems."
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In 1990, gay activist Larry Kramer has claimed that he has uncovered new primary sources which shed fresh light on Lincoln's sexuality. This includes a hitherto unknown Joshua Speed diary and letters in which Speed writes explicitly about his relationship with Lincoln. These items were supposedly discovered hidden beneath the floorboards of the old store where the two men lived, and are now are said to reside in a private collection in Davenport, Iowa. The Capital Times newspaper of Madison reported some alleged quotes of the Speed material from a public reading Kramer gave: "He often kisses me when I tease him, often to shut me up. He would grab me up by his long arms and hug and hug," and "Yes, our Abe is like a school girl." Kramer has yet to publish any of this material for critical evaluation. Carl Sandburg in The Praire Years (1926), part of his six volume biography of Lincoln, made a clear homosexual allusion when he wrote that Lincoln and Speed had "a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets." www.wikipedia.org

President Buchanan
"For many years in Washington, D.C. prior to the presidency, James Buchanan lived with William Rufus King, who was earlier Vice President under Franklin Pierce in 1853. King was referred to by Andrew Jackson as "Miss Nancy" while Aaron Brown called him "Buchanan's better half." Buchanan actually wrote long, intimate letters to King.

There were many rumors at the time that Buchanan was a homosexual. He is, after all, the only president to never marry in his life. But whether or not he was a homosexual continues to be a point of heated debate between historians. (Steve Tally discusses King and Buchanan's relationship in more depth in his book Bland Ambition: From Adams to Quayle--The Cranks, Criminals, Tax Cheats, and Golfers Who Made It to Vice President.)"

"Some historians have speculated that King may have been homosexual, and that he had a long-term intimate relationship with President-to-be James Buchanan (it is not disputed that the two lived together for 16 years in Washington). It is also said that King's detractors in the Senate referred to him as "Aunt fancy" and "Miss Nancy" (both language referring to homosexual men in the nineteenth century). The theory is controversial and a source of debate among Buchanan and King historians. Historian and author James Loewen is one of the theory's better-known proponents. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss when asked by C-SPAN founder and host Brian Lamm if the United States had ever had a gay president responded that the term "gay" was a twentieth century construct. Undeterred, Lamm rephrased his question, asking if the nation had had a homosexual president. Beschloss replied that it appears Buchanan and King may have been homosexual." www.wikipedia.org

"I will tell you a Joke about Jewel and Mary 
It is neither a Joke nor a Story
For Rubin and Charles has married two girls
But Billy has married a boy
The girlies he had tried on every Side
But none could he get to agree
All was in vain he went home again
And since that is married to Natty
So Billy and Natty agreed very well
And mama's well pleased at the match
The egg it is laid but Natty's afraid
The Shell is So Soft that it never will hatch
But Betsy she said you Cursed bald head
My Suitor you never Can be
Beside your low crotch proclaims you a botch
And that never Can serve for me"

 ~Abraham Lincoln (as teenager)
 

And Republicans Think Gay Marriage is The Problem?!