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Feb. 8th, 2004 10:22 amMy need to be neutral and fair is coming up against my total lack of respect for our President. I listened to about 10 minutes of him talking on 'Meet the Press' and was amazed at how the man can't seem to answer a direct question with anything like a complete sentence. Yet Americans like my father love the guy. The editorials today produced this:
My guess is that many previously undecideds will reach for the clothespin in November and pull the Republican lever for president. They may not love Bush. They may have second thoughts about the war in Iraq. They may worry about Bush's spending sprees that are reminiscent of Michael Jackson in Las Vegas.
But they also can't stomach activist courts rearranging the fundamental structure of American life.
Bush has made clear that he will do whatever is necessary to preserve the one man/one woman institution, hinting that he'll support a constitutional amendment. And while Kerry says he opposes gay marriage, he historically has enjoyed support from the gay community for his voting record on gay issues.
As senator, Kerry voted against both the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the Clinton administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays in the military.
Through the remaining primaries and the November election, assuming he becomes the Democratic candidate, will Kerry be forced to embrace gay marriage? Or will he stick to his guns and risk offending a valuable constituency?
So people will be okay with their President sending their kids to another country to be killed under false pretenses and run up a debt their remaining children will have to struggle under for decades because they'd prefer that to having to imagine two guys walking down the aisle? If that's true I would tend to say 'and they'd deserve what they got' but I have to live here too. Americans sure give a lot of lip-service to loving their children that they don't seem to put into actual practice. Fuck. I could never be a politician, I think I'd be too tempted to go in front of the public and yell "are you people all idiots? What's wrong with you? Shut up, you morons!"
My guess is that many previously undecideds will reach for the clothespin in November and pull the Republican lever for president. They may not love Bush. They may have second thoughts about the war in Iraq. They may worry about Bush's spending sprees that are reminiscent of Michael Jackson in Las Vegas.
But they also can't stomach activist courts rearranging the fundamental structure of American life.
Bush has made clear that he will do whatever is necessary to preserve the one man/one woman institution, hinting that he'll support a constitutional amendment. And while Kerry says he opposes gay marriage, he historically has enjoyed support from the gay community for his voting record on gay issues.
As senator, Kerry voted against both the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the Clinton administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gays in the military.
Through the remaining primaries and the November election, assuming he becomes the Democratic candidate, will Kerry be forced to embrace gay marriage? Or will he stick to his guns and risk offending a valuable constituency?
So people will be okay with their President sending their kids to another country to be killed under false pretenses and run up a debt their remaining children will have to struggle under for decades because they'd prefer that to having to imagine two guys walking down the aisle? If that's true I would tend to say 'and they'd deserve what they got' but I have to live here too. Americans sure give a lot of lip-service to loving their children that they don't seem to put into actual practice. Fuck. I could never be a politician, I think I'd be too tempted to go in front of the public and yell "are you people all idiots? What's wrong with you? Shut up, you morons!"
