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Not anymore than sending a cigarette smoker to be an ambassador constitutes approval of smoking.

My jaw has dropped to the floor! Sorry, but that analogy won't fly with me. The problem is that cigarette smoking isn't going to swing our culture farther away from Judeo-Christianity and into cultural paganism.

You thought because Bush said that he read his Bible and prayed that he was going to do what YOU thought that meant.

I thought he meant what he said about holding the line for the religious right. Appointing openly practicing homosexuals to ambassadorships isn't exactly upholding that promise. Its giving the nod of approval.

I'm sorry Bush doesn't measure up to your lofty standards for President

Lofty? All I ask for is that I got my money's worth. So far, I've been shafted on the stem cell issue and the homsexual issue. When the war winds down, and the crumb throwing to the pro-lifers hasn't been rectified, I'm not so sure the republicans will still have a base.

Actually I recall distinctly that Bush said in a debate that he would appoint folks based on qualifications, and not inquire about their sexuality. That was not relevant. I think you are impressing on Bush a bit too much of your own world view. While one may disagree with Bush on this or that, I really can't recall a candidate who in office hewed more closely to what he said he would do. Bush is not an intellectual genius. That may be why with Bush what he says, is what you get. He just isn't smart enough to get away with being disingenuous, which is a secondary reason perhaps beyond his good character why he is not. He is smart enought to know his own limitations. And that to me is wisdom.

The problem is that cigarette smoking isn't going to swing our culture farther away from Judeo-Christianity and into cultural paganism.

Wow, so now the only ambassadors that Bush can appoint are Judeo-Christians. I'm not familiar with that denomination. Is there such a thing? Will there be a religion test as part of the confirmation process?

The problem is that cigarette smoking isn't going to swing our culture farther away from Judeo-Christianity and into cultural paganism.

You act as if gays are a new phenomenon.

I thought he meant what he said about holding the line for the religious right.

Bush never said anything about doing anything for the religious right. You thought he did, but he didn't.

Appointing openly practicing homosexuals to ambassadorships isn't exactly upholding that promise. Its giving the nod of approval.

Is appointing a twice-divorced man to a high-profile government job giving approval to divorce? I think not.

So far, I've been shafted on the stem cell issue and the homsexual issue. When the war winds down, and the crumb throwing to the pro-lifers hasn't been rectified, I'm not so sure the republicans will still have a base.

Well, you and I (and many others) disagree on the stem cell issue. And on the issue of homosexuals in government jobs.

Thankfully, most Bush supporters are much more patient than you are.

The fact that this supposed "flagrant behavior" by the amabassador to Romania hasn't appeared anywhere else in any other publication leads me to believe that the FRC is being just a slight bit disingenuous.