Michelangelo Signorile of the New York Press doesn't get it:
It was a week of raised eyebrows and dropped jaws on the sexual diversity front. Sit down for this one, but George W. Bush actually seemed to get it recently while meeting a transgendered woman in, of all places, the White House. In a report sent my way over a week after it was published–and apparently unnoticed elsewhere–San Francisco Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik noted that at W.’s recent Yale reunion at the White House, Yale alum Louise Casselman saw a female classmate approach Bush."You might remember me as Peter," the woman stated, referring to her years with Bush at Yale, which was an all-male school at the time. Bush apparently didn’t bat an eyelid, grabbed her hand, and replied, "Now you’ve come back as yourself." (No word yet on what Christian Right leaders thought of that–perhaps because no other media organization seems to have picked up on it–nor if Karl Rove will have Bush backing away from the comment).
"Sit down for this one"? Only if you're a leftist like Signorlie are you going to be shocked and amazed that the President can be a decent guy!
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A decent guy, or just a good politician. In either case, this certainly isn't a shocking reaction from a man who has to deal with people on a daily basis.
The President is going to be speaking across the street from my office tomorrow, which means the whole street is going to be shut down. I am interested to see how close they allow the protesters to get. There's enough public space around her where they could stand without disrupting traffic.
Posted by PoB | June 26, 2003 9:23 PM
Posted on June 26, 2003 21:23