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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (65737)	8/24/2005 8:21:04 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 81568

Chinu, your comments are weak... WHY DOES JOHN KERRY WANT TO SPEAK AT BOB JONES UNIVERSITY? In 2000, while stumping for Al Gore, John Kerry quipped, "The definition of compassionate conservative is Bob Jones III forgiving John Rocker." At that point in the campaign, of course, Bush was struggling to overcome a media firestorm that had erupted after he spoke at Bob Jones University, a virulently anti-Catholic and anti-gay school that then had a ban on interracial dating. Bush, who declined to challenge any of the college's policies during his appearance, made his pilgrimage to the university en route to winning the crucial South Carolina primary. To Democrats, BJU has been a symbol for Republican intolerance ever since. In 2001, when President Bush appointed John Ashcroft attorney general, much of the case against the recently-defeated Missouri senator was his association with BJU. "I also find it hard to understand," Kerry said on CNN, "how someone can be deemed to pull together the country when they have accepted an honorary degree from Bob Jones University and give a commencement address there with its policies that I think have been discredited to the point President-elect Bush had to apologize to the Catholic community." Since then, Bob Jones University has removed its ban on interracial dating, and the Democrats have begun stumping in South Carolina for their own important presidential primary there. Then last weekend Kerry became the first Democrat to say he would visit the controversial school. At a candidate meet-and-greet in Columbia, South Carolina, on May 3, a 53 year-old mother of five asked Kerry if he would come speak at Bob Jones. "I would love to," the senator told her, without missing a beat. When asked by a reporter why she wants Kerry to visit, the woman, who declined to give her name, replied, "I just think it's time for Democrats to come across as Christian." And you think Bush is not a religious nutball case? Paying visits to Bob Jones U,