To: SiouxPal who wrote (60594 ) 10/14/2004 7:14:48 PM From: kikogrey Read Replies (2) | Respond to Cheney's daughter wouldn't be mentioned if Shrub weren't promoting his hateful constitutional amendement which ,in my opinion, makes Kerry's remarks fair game. OTOH, my 88 year old mother really objected to his remark, she didn't realize that Bush was pushing to change the constiution. Shrub's push is a complete change from the debates of 2000 so I think it's fair to discuss. I think the gist of it was to expose the bigoted position of the right, their main agenda is that being gay is a "choice." So why would Cheney's daughter choose to be gay? For someone is is a "uniter not a diver" Shrub has really managed to polarize people. Shrub is walking a thin line IMHO, Florida has its share of gays, certainly more than he "won" Florida by last time. Which makes me think that it's a risk he thinks he can afford to take--I strongly fear they will cheat in Florida. My whole family burst out laughing when Kerry mentioned Cheney's daughter because we think these republicans are a bunch of hypocrites, why can't they just admit gays are just part of society and leave it at that. Why do they try to moralize everything? In psychology I believe the word would be "splitting"--the right sees things in terms of black and white, good and "evil". In reality the world is much more complicated than that and Kerry did allude to that in the second debate.
