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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (502)	1/11/2001 11:42:10 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

All off-color references and personal disputes aside, all of this started with these words... Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft says he tries to ``invite God's presence'' while making crucial decisions and compares his political victories and defeats to resurrections and crucifixions. The former Missouri governor also wrote that he was anointed before each of his gubernatorial terms and on the evening before he was sworn into the U.S. Senate a friend brought out Crisco cooking oil for anointing when no holy oil could be found. Two questions: First, an attorney general's private practice of his religion is not our concern, but these words suggest some degree of confusion between civil and religious law. Isn't it legitimate to wonder if a person of such devoutness is going to be able to set religious belief aside, and manage his office according to its secular mandate? Second, is there any person alive, in this day and age, who could make that comment about Crisco without knowing full well that people were going to get a giggle out of crass sexual allusions? I would never have been able to resist if I'd seen that first. Granted, I've always enjoyed tasteless jokes, but anybody who walks into it that thoroughly is in no position to do anything but grin and bear it.