Right Side of the Rainbow

By which he means gays:

In his new memoir, “No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner,” Shrum recalls asking Edwards at the outset of that campaign, “What is your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay rights?”

“I’m not comfortable around those people,” Edwards replied, according to Shrum. He writes that the candidate’s wife, Elizabeth, told him: “John, you know that’s wrong.”

Edwards’s pollster, Harrison Hickman, who was in the room during the discussion, says Shrum “is sensationalizing and taking out of context what was an honest discussion about [Edwards’s] lack of exposure to these issues and openly gay people. I don’t remember anything that expressed any kind of venom or judgment about gay people.” [Emphasis added.]

In other words, Edwards said just exactly what Robert Shrum says he said.

Fair enough. Everyone is uncomfortable around someone. There are, for example, precincts within the gay community where a hair-flipping, compact-using, lip-wetting male would face derision. E.g.:

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HT: Dean Barnett

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