A board like ours says 47 thinks that make irresistible sense, and then one ugly gloating at another human being's tragedy -- and you know which one catches the eye of the unconvinced and gets quoted over and over again forever as representative of all of us.
Dan
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"A merry heart is like good medicine."
We have had a very narrow escape indeed. I was watching Kerry's speech in the dentist's office while my son was having his teeth cleaned, and the hygienist and I both looked at each other after she stumbled in and Kerry left her down below the stage and both said simultaneously, "Is she DRUNK?" It was that obvious.
I think a large part of the irritation we all feel is that the fact that she is obviously, publicly, pathetically drunk or drugged and out of control was never even questioned or touched upon by the news media. Contrast that to the microscopic exam that Bush and his wife and (especially) his daughters got from the news media.
I think in Mrs. Ford's day the press was marginally more restrained in dealing with family members (although Lord knows they were pretty hard on Pres. Ford re his supposed clumsiness, etc.) Moreover, IIRC Mrs. Ford was NOT a loud and publicly intoxicated person, she belonged to the generation that assiduously concealed its drinking. I don't recall her ever making a scene in public (although it just may be that I didn't talk to the right people.)
Anyhow, I don't think too many on here are gloating, just contemplating the narrow escape that we had -- no thanks to a news media that was in the tank for Kerry and refused to investigate any of the MANY problems with his public and personal life.