To: adlaistevenson
Considering that Franken was asking Mr. Ashcroft to share his own abstinence story, you would expect a quickly forthcoming response.You do realize that that statement makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, don't you?
To: PBRSTREETGANG
Of course it makes sense if you realize the
Attorney General was promoting an abstenence program for teenagers in which the youngsters were to submit their own stories of adherence to sexual abstenence prior to marriage. Since Mr. Ashcroft believes his program is effective, and assuming that he is not a hypocrite (like, say Rep. Dan Burton who lied for 20 years about having an illigitimate child while calling the President names for lying about sex, Rep. Henry Hyde's affair, Rep. Helen Chenowith's affair and Newt Gingrich having an affair on his second wife with a woman from his church choir) then you would expect Mr. Ashcroft would be eager to tell his own abstenence stories as he expected others to. But he didn't. If you had read what the controversy regarding the Franken letter to Ashcroft was about, you would have to know that. But as I said before, I don't see evidence that conservatives generally perceive irony, as your politely well intentioned response shows.
400 posted on
09/17/2003 7:12:48 AM PDT by
adlaistevenson
(we really can be patriotic, really.)
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