Jim McGreevey's tearful mea culpa was masterful political theater staged to distract the public from the primary issue: he appointed his gay lover as his advisor on homeland security in New Jersey. A week after the federal government revealed an al Qaeda plot to attack financial centers in New Jersey, Garden State voters were not going to be pleased with their governor's placement of a gay poet to a post charged with helping to ensure their security.
The Israeli poet's only qualification for the job seems to be that he engaged in sex acts with the governor of the state. This was not a typical act of cronyism. McGreevey didn't just loot the taxpayers to create a phony job for a political hack. He recklessly placed an incompetent person in a job that deals with life and death issues. The guy wasn't going to be a public relations liason or the gaming commissioner. McGreevey made him his point man on homeland security in a state that 1) terrorists used as a base to conduct the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, 2) is the home to many of the families of 9/11 victims, and 3) contains financial centers that al Qaeda is targeting.
"My truth is that I am a gay American," McGreevey dramatically admitted on Thursday. But that's not the whole truth. McGreevey admitted one truth to hide another. McGreevey's press conference dictated that press coverage would focus on his homosexuality and infidelity rather than his impending legal problems and the corrupt placement of his adulterous male companion in various six-figure state jobs. Further evidence of the disingenuousness of the whole event is that McGreevey's resignation doesn't take effect until November, which ensures that he and not the people of New Jersey choose who will govern them for the next year.
Whether the job was payment for services rendered or remuneration for blackmail, we may never know. All we know is that Golan Cipen had no business overseeing New Jersey's defenses against terrorism.
Please find below the secret poem written by Golen Cipen to Gov. McGreevey days before his press conference.........
Be My Lover
Wanna Be My Lover
Looking back at all the time we spent together
You oughta know by now if you wanna be my lover
Wanna be my lover
Go ahead but take your time cuz you gotta be secure
Before I make you mine baby you have to be sure you wanna be my lover
Wanna be my lover
Wanna be my lover
Wanna be my lover
Ah Ha Ye-ah
Wanna Be My Lover
I must confess
yes I wanna be your lover
Take a chance my love is like no other
On the dance floor getting down
Hold tight I never let you down
My love definitely
The key like Boyz II Men
lovin you not like your brother Aw Yeah
I wanna be your lover
I hear what you say
I see what you do
I know everything I need to know about you
And I want you to know that its telling me
You wanna be my lover
Ah Ha Ye-ah
Wanna Be My Lover
Ah Ha Ye-ah
Oh, be my lover
Oh, be my lover
I know you want to be my lover
I know you want to be mine
Ah Ha Ye-ah
Wanna Be my lover
My son is gay and I love him.
I LOVE MY CROOKED GAY SON!!!!
J
I can’t help but be impressed at how theatrically relevant Jim McGreevey presented to us his new to the public lifestyle.
He sounded as if he were giving a State of the Union address and not admitting that he lied to the public and his family until he was caught. Worse yet, he placed his ‘friend’ in a very high and sensitive position where his qualifications did not go beyond his relationship with the Governor. Putting his constituency at risk is probably the bigger crime here.
A nice touch was adding his own spin of victim/minority status to his ‘condition’ by referring to himself as a ‘Gay-American’. Anytime you see or hear a hyphenated term suffixed by American, the antennas should go up.
Speaking of blackmail, the gay-american's lover boy probably had access to some pretty sensitive material. Who knows, maybe the leak about Al Qaeda's computer geek came from here.
