Some linkin', to a bunch of stuff........
GAY MARRIAGE BAN IN OREGON? Oregon voters are indicating strong support, according to a recent poll, for the November ballot measure on a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages.
More news of the day.....
BUSH THE FLIP-FLOPPER. Big meme now, given impetus by DeWayne Wickham's column a few days ago in USA Today. Seems it was hard for the the Congressional Black Caucus to pin down Bush for a promised followup meeting. This equals a flip-flop. Terrible stuff, DeWayne. Um, should there even BE a Congressional Black Caucus anymore? Then there's that Iraq thing, and uh, oh, Bush told an interviewer (truthfully) the war on terrorists might well have no end, but then, under political pressure, walked it back. Damning. Just damning.
Critics such as Wickham still struggle to pin the flip-flopper label on Bush over his "nation-building" in Afghanistan and Iraq, despite his clear pre-9/11 pledge of limited foreign entanglements. That's because their 9/10 worldview, like the U.N.'s approach to Iraq, screams "Ostrich."
MAN AT SEA: However, the flip-flop tag is sticking to Kerry, despite this defense from nattering nabob of nuance Marc Sandalow. Seeing pix of JFK sailboarding, Jay Leno cracked, "even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows." Now W's campaign has a new ad mocking Kerry's weathervane tendencies. Ridicule can be a powerful weapon.
PALESTINIAN GENDER EQUITY: So can teen-age girls.
NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS: Liechtenstein won't be testing nuclear weapons. And, the former money-laundering haven is re-branding its image, but probably wasn't expecting Michael Jackson might be moving in. One problem, says his attorney: Jackson's current home, the California ranch Neverland, is about half as big as the entire country of Liechtenstein. Might be hard to procure land with enough, ah, cover, for whatever it is, exactly, that Michael does in his domocile.
And finally, in case you'd forgotten, George Bush employs the rhetoric of terrorists because he believes freedom and liberty are God's gift to humanity.
Evil bastard.
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at September 22, 2004 11:57 PM
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