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To: LindyBill who wrote (77818)	10/15/2004 1:59:57 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793838

Rasmussen: Prez track 2004. Friday October 15, 2004—The Presidential debates are over and the election is just two-and-a-half weeks away. The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 49% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%.

To: LindyBill who wrote (77818)	10/15/2004 2:04:28 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 793838

Of Lesbians and Diplomacy Slings and Arrows blog Kerry is defending his declaration of Mary Cheney's sexual orientation by saying he was trying to be sensitive: “I love my daughters. They love their daughter. I was trying to say something positive about the way strong families deal with this issue,” Kerry said in a statement released from the campaign trail in Las Vegas. In other words, Kerry was trying to show how the Cheney family is the example of a strong family dealing with the issue of homosexuality. Fair enough, except that is not the way it came out and it is definitely not the way the Cheney family took it. One may say that the fault lies with the Cheney family who took Kerry's comment in the worst light because of their partisan nature. This may be so, but one of the lynchpin of Kerry's bid for president is that he is a better diplomat than President Bush. Diplomacy is the art of forwarding your position without offending your opponent. Real diplomacy never happens between friendly parties. If two parties are entirely in agreement on every issue, no diplomacy is unneccessary. Real diplomacy involves conflicting interests, conflicting positions, and often times conflicting personalities. Kerry says he was trying to be positive. He says he was trying to point out what strong families do. What he did instead was anger a huge number of people. What we saw in Kerry's comments about Mary Cheney was the extent his diplomatic skill in miniature. And his diplomacy was a miserable failure.