Kerry: The first 'metrosexual' president?

Toronto Sun ^ | August 7, 2004 | Salim Mansur

[Clive]

LAST YEAR, a small book became a best-seller widely discussed on both sides of the Atlantic.

Robert Kagan's Of Paradise and Power was a provocative essay on the widening difference between America and Europe.

Kagan wrote, "on major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus: They agree on little and understand one another less and less."

After 9/11 this difference amounted to one side -- those from Mars -- taking the war on terror to the hideouts of the Muslim terrorists, with or without the approval of the international community.

Those from Venus insisted on obtaining the United Nations' authority to wage war on these terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere.

As a result, those from Mars perceived Europe returning to the politics of appeasement; and those from Venus viewed America as a simple-minded "hyperpower" in a complex world. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the feminine virtues of Venus would be presented as a rebuttal to Kagan's essay promoting the masculine traits of Mars.

Thus, in the July 2004 issue of the magazine Foreign Policy, Parag Khanna of the prestigious Brookings Institution in Washington describes the European Union as a "metrosexual superpower" in harmony with the values of the contemporary age.

Foreign Policy's editorial leaning is on the Democratic side of the political divide in the U.S. But it would be too crude to suggest it is a mere mouthpiece of the Democratic party.

Its editor tends to spread the blame widely for the Bush administration's "misadventure in Iraq," including to many Democrats.

But, Khanna writes, help is on the way with John Kerry's looming presidency that will have the approval of the "metrosexual" superpower from across the Atlantic. As Khanna puts it, "metrosexual men are muscular but suave, confident yet image-conscious, assertive yet clearly in touch with their feminine sides." They "always know how to dress for the occasion (or mission)."

Kerry almost fits the description as he recalls his Vietnam service to add the right amount of Mars characteristics to the Venus persona he has cultivated over the years.

He is loved in Paris, has the support of Arab-Muslim apologists for terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic and Kofi Anan's United Nations club will endorse his metrosexual power enthusiastically, since image is everything at the UN, so long as results do not unsettle the complex arrangements of coddling genocidal tyrants.

For whatever reason, Khanna ignores Canada, where the ruling Liberal party has built an impressive record of metrosexual power in global diplomacy for a generation.

The upside is Canada's place at or near the top of countries in the United Nations' annual Human Development Index.The downside is, despite our "image-conscious" engagement with a complex world, Canadian diplomacy can be easily dismissed even by a fourth-rate totalitarian state such as Iran. Such politically incorrect details are perhaps unworthy of consideration.

In any event, Europe's metrosexuals in "redefining masculinity" await a Kerry presidency for restructuring the Atlantic alliance and making the world safer with "dress for the occasion" diplomacy.

[Clive]

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[Conspiracy Guy]

Morning. I just wrote this parody this morning. This thread needs a song!

”Lying is Their Norm”

Riders on the Storm



Lying is their norm.
Lying is their norm.
They’ve got two ears of corn..



They believe in porn.
Like two pigs upon a throne,
Their brains are made of bone.
Lying is their norm.




They’ve got buses on the road,
John Kerry’s just a slimy toad..
John Edward’s not okay,



They’re both acting gay.
If you give these men a ride,
We’ll all die inside.
Lying is their norm. Yeah!



Lying is their norm.
Lying is their norm.
They’ve got two ears of corn..



They believe in porn.
Like two pigs upon a throne,
Their brains are made of bone.
Lying is their norm.



Lying is their norm.
Lying is their norm.
Lying is their norm.


Conspiracy Guy aka DIF 8/8/2004

[John Thornton]

Foreign Policy's editorial leaning is on the Democratic side of the political divide in the U.S. But it would be too crude to suggest it is a mere mouthpiece of the Democratic party.

This magazine is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

I don't believe this is a "centrist" organization despite its claims to be "non-partisan."

[traumer]

His new cabinet:

[traumer]

His new cabinet:

[NEBO]

I am thinking how this has affected our public schools... When I was a kid, the kids would just fight it out, on the playground, after school, before school. Then whatever the beef was, it was settled, and everyone moved on. Now they have "conflict management" and they TALK to the kids and try to avoid the fights. Like the UN. You have to go to the UN = conflict management, rather than take care of the bullies who killed 3000 of us. NO THANKS!

[JENINMO]

Someone noted: If you look you'll see he has them both ways (the corn). He can't even stay on one side of the corn holding issue!

[OpusatFR]

And Ter-A-ZA reminds me of Margaret Trudeaux completely. I just wonder when she will be drunk enough to jump in a fountain.

[Conspiracy Guy]

LOL

[Conspiracy Guy]

Still LOL

[Conspiracy Guy]

he is without hints or clues.

[hershey]

You would be right. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is so far left they should just put the RAT party on their letterhead. If you catch any of their speaker forums on C-Span, this will be self evident.

[Bahbah]

"But it would be too crude to suggest it is a mere mouthpiece of the Democratic party."

At the risk of displaying my crudeness, let me say that Foreign Policy is a mouthpiece of the Democrat party.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

" He is loved in Paris, has the support of Arab-Muslim apologists for terrorism on both sides of the Atlantic and Kofi"

All this Mars and Venus stuff really confuses me because I flunked Astrology 101. Also, Metrosexual - Gay - Straight - sexual identification politics really confuses me too. I don't read the New Yorker to know how to think and don't listen to Peter Jennings to get my facts.

But I sure understand this appeasement crap that Kerry seems to like and it ain't gona fly on this side of the Atlantic.

[finnman69]

[aruanan]

Kerry: The first 'metrosexual' president?

No, the first soon to be former metrosexual candidate for president.

[sergeantdave]

Foreign Policy magazine is a pile of blathering one-world order Marxists, and metrosexual Kerry couldn't navigate a bar of Ivory soap in a bathtub.

Furthermore, these Old Europe Marxists can kiss my USMC butt. If you need to find it, it's about 4 feet from my fist in your nose.

Finally, if I see one more sissy metrosexual with black eyeliner and rouge lipstick on my TV, I'm going to pull the plug and make it the new kitty litter box.

[Mike Bates]

[x]

"Europe: The Meterosexual Superpower"? There's an intriguing idea in that, but the whole "metrosexual" idea is hard to take seriously. Surely it ought to be possible to express the idea in more sensible, less trendy terms.

"Kerry, the first metrosexual President"? First, he has to get himself elected, and second, it's not certain he'd be the first. Nineteenth century Presidential campaigns sometimes turned on whether the man in charge was effete or effeminate. John Quincy Adams got that kind of abuse from populist Jacksonian Democrats. Whigs dished it back at Martin Van Buren. The idea of a wine connoisseur and gourmet in the White House frighted honest working people. It meant that he'd be more responsive to special interests than to ordinary people, and perhaps decadent or perverted in his tastes.

So whenever a candidate seemed too soft or too much of a high liver, Henry Clay or Daniel Webster, Lewis Cass or James Buchanan, he'd be attacked for not being a "man of the People," and for having luxuriant tastes. Whether the charges were true -- and rumors still persist that the bachelor President Buchanan was more "metro" than "hetero" -- they made a big part of some political campaigns. And "metro" may have been more offensive than "homo" in those days, since "homosexuality" wasn't a known or accepted concept in those days, but eating rich food and sleeping in silk sheets could be readily understood by all.