WAS OBAMA’S “DIVORCE” FROM REV. WRIGHT TOO LITTLE TOO LATE?

In the wake of more recent comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, who has said that he could “no more disown him” than his white grandmother, has now fully distanced himself from the controversial pastor.

But the question is now the timing of the decision. Should Obama have done that during his speech last month in Philadelphia, when he said he could not disown Wright? Could Obama’s 20-year relationship with Wright be the nail in the coffin as far as his Presidential hopes are concerned? I’d say so, even if he does pull out the nomination.

Jeremiah Wright has done nothing but create a distraction to the American public, and most certainly, Barack Obama, and his supporters. We cannot take Obama’s past relationship lightly. In selecting a president, voters need to select the candidates that represent our values and viewpoints. And Barack Obama has made an awful mistake by associating himself for half of his life with an individual that is not for the good of the American people.

As a result, Obama has already lost more than a few voters, and if he continues his campaign, which he will, then the Illinios Senator will lose more votes, plus key superdelegates, which will ultimately decide in August who runs for President in the Democratic Party.

In the end, Hillary Clinton will pull out the nomination, which may hopefully carry the momentum all the way to the White House.

LOVE POEM INSPIRED BY ZAC EFRON PHOTO

I wrote this poem entitled Locker Room Desire. It was inspired by a photograph I found on the web of a shirtless Zac Efron (http://www.zac-efron.info/shirtlessZacEfron-big.jpg). And I was just taken by the photo.

I used to go to a poetry reading called A Love Supreme in Plano, Texas. There, during one such monthly gathering at the Plano ArtsCentre, one of the women who read (I forgot her name) was discussing her poetry, and she said that she wrote poems inspired by photography. I had been experimenting with that since last year, and had one of my poems A Crush, inspired by a photograph of James Dean, published online. So I decided to try it again, this time with Zac.

Please don’t be jealous, Vanessa!

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LOCKER ROOM DESIRE

A young man walked into the locker room one day
following a long afternoon at the gym.
His hair had been soaked all over,
and moisture was dripping furiously
down the rocks of his magnificent torso.
The walls of this private, sacred room
had been consumed by the scent of his musty odor.

I began to daydream the two of us,
alone, inside the thick steam of a warm shower,
picking up what perspiration would come about.
I imagined tasting the ripe, delicious fruits
everywhere I could find around
the soul of an exuberant athlete,
passed out, exhausted, resting in my arms.

Only if the young man knew that I wanted him.

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For a closing footnote, it is my intention to perform this poem at the McKinney Poetry Slam during the McKinney Art & Jazz Festival on Sunday, June 8, during the hour of 3:00 PM.

(c) 2008 A.J. Chilson

HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR GLBT WRITERS…

Literature would be boring.

That’s right. Let me repeat it.

LITERATURE WOULD BE BORING.

And as a result people would not be writing literature. The only thing people would read would be the Bible, and other religious texts. There wouldn’t even be literature classes in high school, I can go so far as to be saying here.

In other words, GLBT writers have made the media genre entertaining. From American writers like Whitman, Dickinson, Hughes, Burroughs, Capote, Ginsberg, and Williams; to writers of other nationalities such as Wilde, Rimbaud, Lorca, and Stein; and poets and writers from centuries and milleniums back, such as Sappho and Shakespeare, the world has been filled with great literature of which few heterosexual writers could muster up. And it will always be that way no what what.

I SUPPORT THE DENTON, TEXAS CONFEDERATE MONUMENT

As much as it may upset African Americans and the people who support their ideas that anything that represents the Rebel Army of the Civil War, I have to state that anything dedicated the fallen soldiers of the fallen South as well as the Confederate flag is a part of American history.

I say this not to evoke anger among the black community. However, I do understand that views upon reading this blog will be divided, with some supporting my opinion, and those who will clearly object to my views favoring the conservation of the South. I, a Southern-born happen to own a Rebel flag, as do my parents (theirs with fellow Southerner Elvis Presley on the flag).

I do believe that the students of North Texas University circulating a petition to have the Confederate Monument removed from the Denton, Texas Downtown Square, which happens to contain two water fountains (one for whites, the other for blacks). Honestly, I consider that a reminder of what life used to be like during Segregation. I feel, without trying to evoke racism, that this too should be preserved. Therefore, I find that the attempts these students are making are baseless, though they are within their right to an opinion on this front. In my opinion, if a black person crosses path to this monument then they have the right to turn their head. They have their freedom. Black people don’t have to worry about being treated like “second-class citizens”, nor do they have to worry about someone yelling hate speech at them without the other person getting in some kind of trouble over it. Life has changed for the better, and it’s about time people should get over it.

ABBA’S DANCING QUEEN IS MY FAVORITE SONG

Well, I’ve got other favorite songs that I call my favorite ones. It can go without saying if you were to look at my MySpace profile that Judy Garland’s Over The Rainbow is among them.

To tell you the truth, I’ve only been hooked on ABBA for about a month. But I’ve been listening to Dancing Queen over the radio for at least two years. So the reason I haven’t loved ABBA any longer was simply because I didn’t know who did that song. I’m just kid compared to all the disco freaks around. So when I finally looked up the song that’s when I got hooked.

But that song, I’ll tell you. I really trip out along to the tune. It really gets me going. Now there are other ABBA songs that I love (ex: Knowing Me, Knowing You; SOS; Waterloo, etc.).

Now it’s kind of interesting that I love Dancing Queen because the song is actually a favorite among GLBT people. They do love dance songs, worshipping Dolly Parton, Cyndi Lauper, and Madonna, to name only a few, as gay icons who have attracted GLBT people, just like Judy Garland did over a half century back, when she became one of the first celebrities to celebrate having a GLBT following. And she still does, almost forty years after her death. Take it from me, a bisexual friend of Dorothy is collecting Judy Garland memorabilia.

Dancing Queen and Over The Rainbow are my favorite songs. And they will the favorite songs of many other people in the years to come.

THANK GOD FOR THE INTERNET… AND ITS WEBSITES

Not to say that I appreciate the Lord for pornographic websites or for disgusting images that can be posted for the whole world to see. But there are a lot of people out there who like to socialize, yet can’t find any love, can’t find that special someone who shares what you have in common, those values, the similarities, etc. That’s what social networking and dating websites are for: To meet people you’ve never met. You know, a lot of good relationships have come straight out of Al Gore’s brilliant mind, and marriages have been celebrated and children have come to this world as a result.

You know, for the GLBT people out there, this can be just as true for them (maybe the children have come through other outlets), as with the much depressed heterosexual looking for somebody to love.

But the internet, I don’t know who really created it, was developed with a purpose, to get people together and meet up. It’s worked well for interest groups. It’s worked well with reunions. And it certainly works well with love. And there is nothing, and I mean nothing like it.

Thank God for the internet.

CAN BARACK OBAMA GET 2,025 DELEGATES BEFORE THE CONVENTION?

Honestly, considering the Jeremiah Wright controversy and the “bitter” comments he made regarding middle-class people in Pennsylvania that cost him dearly in that state’s primary, I think not. There is somewhere around 500 left in the primary season, and Obama needs a little more than 300 to get the 2,025 needed to wrap up the nomination. And the superdelegates are starting to lean toward Hillary Clinton after the Obama campaign unleashed attack after attackon her during the waning hours of the Pennsylvania primary, thus making more unlikely the chances of Obama even becoming the nominee. But if Obama does well in the May 6 primaries of Indiana and North Carolina, the latter of which Obama is favored to win, as he has won much of the Bible Belt states delegatewise.

It would only take a real disaster now for Hillary Clinton to score the equalizer on Obama’s miscues to lose a significant amount of delegates to where Obama would win the nomination before August. Because my opinion on the primaries, as always, is that IT WILL GO TO THE CONVENTION.

IF THE FORESKIN WAS MADE…

… Then I’m kind of wondering. Why do they cut it off? Is this what the foreskin was made for? To be chopped off and thrown into the trash can? I mean, if parents want to have their infant boys cut, or grown adolescent boys and men to make the choice for themselves, then why can’t something good come out of that foreskin? Don’t you think burn victims could, at the very least, be the benefactors of a skin donation, just like dying patients would from an organ transplant?

It just gets me for some reason. Why did the foreskin get created in the first place? I mean, if an infant boy is going to be circumcised than we have to the question “Was this what the foreskin was meant for?”

BARACK OBAMA SAYS HE WILL OFFEND PEOPLE AGAIN

Last night, at the democratic debate in Philadelphia, before a national television audience, Barack Obama said that his “bitter” comments will be repeated again. “This was not the first time I’ve said it, and it won’t be the last,” Obama told ABC Evening News anchor and debate moderator Charlie Gibson.

On the flipside of the issue, Hillary Clinton explained how proud she was of her grandfather, who worked his whiole life, and took pride in that he sent three of his sons to college so they could live a better life.

Clinton also explained that she would make a better leader than Obama because of the experience she has in which Obama clearly lacks. She carefully detailed that as president she would have the troops out of Iraq within 60 days, whereas Obama’s plan calls for a far more lengthier time of 18 months.

In this debate, Hillary Clinton won on points, which will propell her through Pennsylvania, and all the way to Denver, and all the way back to the White House. GO HILLARY!!!

BRITNEY SPEARS IN THE BATHROOM

Read all about it. The paparazzi’s everywhere. Just imagine what Princess Diana and Anna Nicole Smith had to go through before they got ambushed.

Seems like no celebrity in the world gets privacy. No offense to African Americans, but it seems like Britney might ought to go around town now in a Ku Klux Klan mask. I mean, everywhere she goes people are there. Even in the sancity of a public restroom, photographers are there. For example, Britney can’t even relieve herself without the media timing her with their watches as she urinates. It’s pretty bad. The world’s turning into Sodom and Gomorrah the way the paparazzi is making it.

Link to bathroom photos. Will appear on the bottom as you scroll down.

http://www.britneyzone.com/pictures/thumbnails.php?album+1626

Just an example of how awful things have been the last fifty years. We couldn’t use the word “pregant” back then, now we can use “god damn”. Black men and white women couldn’t kiss on television, now we see two people of the same sex doing it. Everything seems liberalized. The bar has been raised above the roof, and now it’s anything goes.