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To: E who wrote (28247)	2/6/2004 8:30:51 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

In the long run, you will lose this one, I admit to mixed emotions on it. Back in my full Libertarian days, I had your attitude. But now I think there is a lot of merit in perserving standards. Don't get rid of them without careful consideration. We just had an example of this at the Super Bowl. I am willing to extend tolerance to Gays, but not acceptance. I think that is where most people are at. "We're here, we're queer, and we are going to run your son's Boyscout troop," just won't cut it for most people.

To: E who wrote (28247)	2/6/2004 8:40:43 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793957

Kerry's trying to "Give em the old razzle dazzle." "He said he is opposed to the Wednesday ruling of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which said that nothing short of marriage would guarantee gay couples their full constitutional rights. He did not rule out backing a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, a step the Massachusetts legislature is considering."

To: E who wrote (28247)	2/6/2004 8:46:42 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793957

THE NOTE - NEW YORK, Feb. 5, -- Sen. John Kerry moved sluggishly into the 16-passenger Gulfstream II waiting on the "Million Air" tarmac in Teterboro, N.J. Kerry, who mounted a comeback campaign by rallying against "special interests," was welcomed for landing at Teterboro despite having occasionally cited the corporate-friendly airstrip as a symbol of excess in his stump speech. At Sister Sarah's Restaurant in Algona, Iowa, shortly before the turn of the New Year, Kerry railed, "I can't tell you, I mean, you can go to Teterboro airport in New Jersey on a Friday night, and watch a whole bunch of corporate executives getting into corporate jets, flying to their corporate-paid-for homes, who are going to play golf at corporate paid-for-golf club memberships, after they've been to the theater at corporate-paid-for tickets, all of which (is tax) deducted, all of which you're paying for." Summarizing his lengthy riff, the Senator concluded, "There's too much money loose in the American political system." But as Gotham's night lights began to glow, Teterboro airport represented something much less rotten to the Kerry campaign.