Clinton: "The margin was small, but the mandate was clear."
Posted on 11/03/2004 1:43:00 PM PST by Splatter
The delusion continues. I heard an opponent to Oregon's same sex marriage "ban", (Not really a ban. Defined marriage: One Man One Woman) say it was "Not a mandate" because the vote was "so close". The "ban" passed by 8% in LL Oregon. If gay marriage had any chance of success, it was in Portland Or., where progressive fools rule.
Let's see, eleven states pass eleven same sex marriage bans and that is not a mandate? What would the activist community consider a mandate? Maybe mandates are accompanied by back room deals, uncivil protests and manipulation of our court system.
I would like to thank the tolerance crowd for helping President Bush win the white house. I believe their manipulation, subversion and strong arm tactics had a huge influence on this election. They managed to divide the Democrats, polarize the progressives and motivate the traditional values voters. Good Job!
It's only a mandate if one deciding vote by a judge mandates it. Get with it, man.
Clinton: "The margin was small, but the mandate was clear."
Ahem.
It has passed by 13.8% at this time.
Notice they hold up ultra-liberal Oregon's results to "prove" there is no mandate. In the other states, the propositions passed with landslide results.
Actually, considering how liberal Oregon is, that the proposition passed by any significant margin (as it did) CAN be interpreted as a mandate!
Let the results sink in... and give them a chance to save face... They'll come to their senses in time...
It could be 100% - 0% and she would still be in that river in Ebypt, De Nile...
Bump!
America is Finally waking UP!
Montana -- the BIG SKY State is proud to say that a marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN
NOT two men, NOT two women, not a frog, a dog and a woman, NO THANK YOU LARRY FLINT, NO THANK YOU John (Communist agent) Kerry.
We are proud Americans NOT STOOGES FOR EUROPE!
America rejects your immorality! WE will win!
As my old 1st Sergeant used to say, "Let me tell you how it will be. You can put that entirely out of your mind."
Are you sure he wasn't asking for a 'man date'?
When a judge gives them a win. That's a "mandate".
As Ann Coulter says, Democrats really don't believe in democracy. And on this issue in particular they hate it when it's brought to a vote.
denial is always the first stages a person goes through during a crisis. here is to hoping that you stay in the denial for a long, long time
I heard a similar activist who also pointed that historically the U.S. has had a "patchwork" of laws on various social issues (like abortion) until the Supreme Court brings all the states into uniformity and that in time that is what would happen to bring the equality and freedom of gay marriage into civil rights reality.
I'm paraphrasing him, but they plan to litigate what they can't get from the electorate.
We need a federal constitutional ammendment and to remove it from the jurisdiction of the courts both!
Michigan says they're taking it to Supreme Court. They think it's unconstitutional...
Oregon is not as liberal as they thought.
Naturally, they are going to try to overturn the will of the people in the courts, but I think this measure is pretty bulletproof.
I agree.
I guess that it's only a mandate when it's what THEY want.
Just like you're disenfranchised if they don't LISTEN to you, and "give you what you want" (focus on "give") - quote from now-famous P. diddy "I'm disenfranchised" speech...
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