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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
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..and where do you get off telling us that it's shameful and embarassing to the "general population"? Do you speak for the "general population"?
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Excuse me, maybe it isn't an embarassment to the general population, sorry about that. How about if I said that it is an embarassment to the general population of conservatives which the Cheney family is part of--does that sound more agreeable?
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Then I'd say they are the ones with a problem, because their candidate made the issue a campaign issue and their candidate made the Cheney daughter's sexual orientation public.
As noted by GD, they cannot have it both ways.
Their posturing about the shame of Kerry is sickening to me. They are the ones who should be ashamed.
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Yes, they should be ashamed.
Maybe the biggest trouble here is we are too wrapped up in our own points of view to see the perspective of the other side. I'll make an analogy, and maybe that will help.
I have a sexual fetish towards Asians. It has already been made somewhat public. Now suppose my dad is VP of the United States and is running for re-election, and the president supports a constitutional amendment for the prohibition of interracial marriage. But my dad opposes it along with his opponent.* And during a nationally televised debate, my dad's opponent says, "We're all God's children, Bob. And I think if you were to talk to the vice president's son, who has a fetish for Asian chicks, he would tell you that he is being who he was, he's being who he was born as."
That would piss me off big time. I want no part of that debate, and I don't my fetishes to be a national topic to be thrown about by political candidates and news pundits.
*footnote: Dick Cheney opposes the Federal Marriage Amendment.