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Iceland has announced a new government that will be headed by the modern world’s first openly gay leader. Johanna Sigurdardottir was named new prime minister by the country’s coalition political parties.
“The government inherits enormous difficulties due to the banking and systemic collapse as well as considerable and rapidly increasing foreign debts and liabilities of the national economy,” the new coalition said in a statement. It said its priorities would be replacing the board of governors of the central bank and to ask a parliamentary committee to look at the possibility of entering the European Union.
‘Liberal voters’Ms Sigurdardottir, a former social affairs minister, is the member of the Social Democratic Alliance.
The 66-year-old’s appointment as interim leader – until elections in May – is seen by many as a milestone for the gay and lesbian movement, correspondents say.
“I don’t think her sexual orientation matters. Our voters are pretty liberal, they don’t care about any of that,” Skuli Helgeson, Social Democratic Alliance’s general secretary, told the BBC.
Ms Sigurdardottir – who has never hidden her sexuality – is, nevetherless, very private about her personal life, never discussing it in public. She married her companion Jonina Ledsdottir in 2002. She is one of Iceland’s most popular politicians.
It matters, of course, to the world of bigots.
‘Cepting, of course, as long as she doesn’t cross any generally accepted unacceptable lines in her personal life. I’m thinking really degenerate stuff like, I dunno, more than one wife, that sort of thing.
RBG
Problems all solved!
#20 Mr Fusion
>>Her personal life is none of my business. What she does in office is.
That’s not a very good method of judging a politician. I suppose under that criteria the private life of Mayor Jeffery Dahmer wouldn’t have mattered as long as Atlanta was running smooth.
Judging from the tax cheats and scoundrels now in office perhaps it’s time for a new criteria that includes looking into the private lives of those with the power to rob us blind.
this is about as newsworthy as Obama being left handed.
#23, ‘tempt,
Mayor Jeffery Dahmer
I didn’t know Atlanta ever had a Jeffery Dalmer for a mayor. Criminal acts have always been a police matter. If he is arrested and jailed then of course he becomes incapable of performing his job as mayor.
But it is none of my business to know if he (or any politician) has been married x number of times or walks around his house nude. Although I do care about those not paying their taxes, I am more interested in if they take money from the public trough.
#25 Mr Fusion
You are right, Atlanta never had a Mayor Jeffery Dahmer. My point is what do we really know about any of the people we elect? In way too many cases a “R” or “D” is all that matters.
I’ve found that you can tell a lot about people just observing the way they live. It’s just basic common sense not to make the private life of politicians out-of-bounds.
#26, ‘tempt,
Do you mean things like Sarah Palin’s two grand kids? Or how about John McCain screwing another woman while his wife is gravely injured and in the hospital? Or Larry Craig toe tapping in a public washroom? Or Newt Gingrich nor only screwing his secretary, but serving divorce papers on his wife, right after cancer surgery, in the hospital? Or George Bush drinking himself stupid.
I have a difficult time accepting that these things had any effect on your thinking.
# 27 Mr. Fusion said, “Or George Bush drinking himself stupid.”
Exactly. Or, Obama being a coke head…
#17 Mr Fusion
All politicians from both parties should be held to the same standard. The sooner we realize it is not Democrat vs Republican, but citizens against government, the better off we will be.
#28, Cow-Paddy,
So Obama was a “coke head”? Would you care to back up your claim. Of course, you do realize there is a difference between someone who has tried a drug and someone who is addicted.
# 30 Mr. Fusion said, “So Obama was a “coke head”? Would you care to back up your claim. ”
Go listen to some obama speeches or read his books.
Hey, no big deal. He’s a Boomer. He’s the 3rd Boomer we’ve had as Pres and they’ve all been drug abusers. Maybe we should stop electing these idiots.
If her “sexual orientation” doesn’t matter, why post a blog entry about it??