Posted on 10/17/2004 7:40:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
In a face-to-face encounter with John Kerry's daughter Alexandra, gutsy Liz Cheney demanded an apology on Saturday for Kerry's decision to publicly identify her sister Mary as "a lesbian" to a presidential debate audience of millions.
Sitting right next to Alexandra while the two guested on ABC's "Good Morning America," the married mother of four said a Kerry apology "would be appropriate."
But Alexandra didn't stray from the Kerry campaign's edict that Mary Cheney's sexuality is "fair game," telling the Liz, "when you choose to be part of a campaign, you choose to make yourself public." The day before, top White House aide Mary Matalin also suggested it was time for Kerry to apologize - but so far the top Democrat refuses to acknowledge he was wrong.
The reaction to Kerry's "lesbian" outburst - and the way his campaign has mishandled it - has been overwhelmingly negative, with polls showing that, by a margin of two-to-one, Americans think he was wrong to "out" Cheney in Wednesday night's debate.
Some pundits thought that the gay-baiting ploy could be politically fatal, with WABC Radio's Monica Crowley flatly predicting on Saturday that it could "cost Kerry the election."
Even the Christian right - who team Kerry thought would be turned off to learn that a member of President Bush's political family is gay - has rallied to Mary Cheney's defense.
Columnist Zef Chafets noted in Sunday's New York Daily News, "Well-known political preachers like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson have gone out of their way to defend her right to privacy. Conservative radio talk shows and Web sites have been flooded with denunciations of Kerry and support for Mary."
The dems keep recycling the only points of attack they have. That's why we had to go through the National Guard nonsense AGAIN and I fully expect the drunk driving charge to be brought up in the next week or two----probably with some kind of twist to make it seem "new". Also other old rumors the left keeps trying to revive (Kitty Kelley's book was supposed to serve as a launching pad).
So, in addition to whatever they can use that happened during his presidency (perhaps they'll start howling about Abu Ghraib again?) the only thing they've got on Dubya are these old stories, including the Cheney saga we dealt with back in 2000.
:^D
The "exaggerations" statement was quickly exposed as nothing anyway. A review of what he said makes it clear of the context and only the ABB crowd thinks President Bush is not interested in getting bin Laden.
In other words, trying to make something out of that would only serve to buck of the base. Everybody else knows it was not what you tried to make it out to be by bringing it up.
Kerry owes a lot of apologies to a lot of people. He ain't gonna apologize. They will just have to take their satisfaction the way that President Bush did. Place your boot on his neck and relieve yourself on that thing he calls his face.
What's the deal with that glove on Lizzie Edwards' hand?
NOT TRUE!! The annulment does NOT affect the legitacy of Kerry's two daughters! A real Catholic would know this.
I'll have the Klingon, please.
SCHIEFFER: Both of you are opposed to obesity, and are concerned about
its costs to those it affects, and to society. But to understand how
you have come to that conclusion, I want to ask you a more basic
question. Do you believe obesity is the fault of the person effected?
BUSH: We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk
to Jon Edwards' wife, who is overweight, she would tell you that she's
being who she was, simply big-boned, with a low metabolism. She's being
who she was born as.
I think if you talk to anybody, it's not her fault. I've met people
who struggled with their weight for years, people who were heavy
because they were living a sort of convention in terms of eating
normal amounts of food, and they struggled with it.
And we all need to be more accepting of our heavier fellow citizens,
especially the plus-sized gals like Mrs. E, who is as lovely and
gracious as any anorexic supermodel. We need to accept people the way
God had made them.
The use of the word lesbian by kerry was no accident. I'd be willing to bet the farm lesbian was used because research showed it elicited more of a negative effect than the word gay.
How many people use "lesbian" in a conversation?
I am curious if anyone else noticed a pause in Kerry's voice right before he said that word. If so, how did you perceive it?
Whoa! I did not realize Mrs Edwards was such a pork........er, enormously scale challenged.
>>>> A review of what he said makes it clear of the context and only the ABB crowd thinks President Bush is not interested in getting bin Laden.
I agree with your point, but that is exactly what the President should have said instead of denying he said something that Kerry quoted verbatim. In a more general sense I do NOT favor playing the "context" game because that is exactly how the other side tries to spin away Kerry's "nuisance" comment and the $87 billion vote.
Hmmmm. If he never actually received the annulment, he is still married to his first wife in the Church's eyes. Hence the civil ceremony, something two supposedly devout Catholics would NEVER do unless they had no choice.
To add insult to injury, however, they both persist in receiving Holy Communion when they are, according to the Church, living in sin.
These "people" disgust me!
Ah, that brings to light some (not surprising) things, thanks for clarifying them.
Their mockery of God and the sacrament of marriage is astounding.
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