P!nk - Dear Mr. President

Of COURSE it's personal, that's the point. P!nk is an artist and an American citizen, it is her prerogative to express herself as she sees fit. He's the POTUS, there are multiple task forces on the homeless and on poverty - but Republicans don't give a damn about poor people, so there's that.

She does plenty of philanthropy, which you might know if you bothered to investigate rather than making baseless assertions. As for the commentary on homosexuality, what the fuck are you even talking about? Where is the statement or declaration anywhere in that song suggesting that anyone has no rights to say/think/feel whatever they want to? The point was to call into question the caliber of a person who would cast out their own child for being gay/lesbian, which is what happens in a lot of families of 'good conservative christians".

I personally think she is tremendous and that this is one of the best things she has ever done, but support your right to think whatever you want to think - and I'm sure she would as well.

While you may not be one of the people who would throw out their kids for being gay, it's a very common practice among your flock, Kate - it is shameful and horrifying and I personally understand what it feels like to be shunned for such a thing, so accept the fact that it's largely a religious bias in that respect. That's hardly a baseless accusation, it is a statement of fact just because you know of no personal instances of this doesn't mean it isn't happening. As to the issue of gay marriage, the same argument you are making is the same argument made in the Jim Crow days by segregationists, it was just as wrong and misguided then as it is now. WHO CARES if straght people don't want gay marriage? They're not the ones wanting to marry another member of the same sex, it has nothing - not ONE THING - to do with them, so why does it even matter? The issue is equal rights under then smae set of laws, and there is no proof whatsoever that gay marriage will have a negative effect on the institution itself - it is a religious bias, nothing more.

You're very naive, Kate. No one is saying that the total eradication of homelessness and poverty is a feasible goal, only that we should be trying harder and that the leaders of the strongest, most powerful country in the world have a responsibility to its citizens to see them all as equals and represent them as such. There is equal blame to go around for the conditions of the poor, but the current administration has not made a single actionable directive in assisting those issues in it's lifespan, and historically speaking the conservatives never have. Yes, there were homeless in previous administrations, but at least in those times the issues were raised and debated, and headway was made in getting assistance to those that needed it most.

George W. bush has never worked manual labor, he comes from privilege roots and has been enabled by power and wealth to ascend to his throne. He has never been an exceptional student, he has never served the full expectation of his military service. He HAS however taken more days off in both of his administrations than any other president in history. The average American citizen cannot relate to anyone like him on these merits, much like he is out of step wth basic human needs and the struggles many of us have in achieving them - he's never had to. His handlers and his fans who support him and enable him by doing the leg work. George W. Bush knows nothing about hard work.

I, like many, don't give a fuck if it is an all volunteer army - when one of our own dies in a senseless war, it should diminish us all as human beings. Unless you've lost a child and know what that feels like, you have no business making statements like that to me. Seriously, I'll write you off and ban you from that in the future. Don't push this issue with me, I've grown up in a military town and in a military family and I KNOW what I'm talking about.

How about this - if you want to know, get the info yourself. pinkspage.com and looktothestars.org are resources to start with. Looking for signs of hypocrisy in a musician who is making a statement is hardly comparative to a world leader who is failing his own people, in fact it's a really weak argument.

We don't have to agree, Kate - but I'd really appreciate it if you'd engage me in arguments about real issues of policy and social justice rather than your distaste of a protest song, because that stuff is real. I've said everything I care to say about P!nk and this song, so unless there's something else more vaild you wish to debate, I'm really done with this.