Amending the Constitution...Follow

It never ceases to amaze me that one man can be so short-sighted. Out of all the issues he could possibly address in vying for re-election in a time of great national stress, he picks THIS? This is almost as bad as focusing on additional missions to the moon. It'll never pass, but it still ticks me off.

It looks like Bush is worrying about a re-election and is struggling to stay above the water.

Thank you for that insightful addition to the discourse, sock-puppet, or troll, whichever you are.

Actually he is doing exaclty what he should do and telling Americans how he feels about the issue and taking a political stand. He is backing the decision 38 states have already made. Now he is making the issue a federal case because the will of a FEW activist judges and elected officials are trying to over throw the decision that a majority of America has already stated they want and that is the sanctity of marriage as it has been. Did you not read the entire article where he says that states will still have the right to recognize civil unions.

As someone stated in another thread, Now is the time to discuss the issue. Though I believe an ammendment to the constitution will not pass, at least the issue is definitely on the front stage. Hell even Kerry does not support gay marriage and he is the Democratic Front runner.

Was I asleep during history class? Is the Constitution now meant to protect the "sanctity" of certain concepts? Isn't that a function of church, not state?

Edited, Tue Feb 24 13:53:34 2004 by Atomicflea

On the up side, we have some movement on Korea, it is a recovery, Iraq is free of Sadaam, the majority of the people really whining about civil liberties are the same that whined before the Patriot Act, seniors will get their drug coverage, there are now national standards for education, and Haliburton is being investigated. Those, and he's never perjured himself. :)

As for the environment, if I want to ride my snowmobile in the wilderness, ***** the tree-hugging hippies who wouldn't know a good time if it sat on their face and wiggled.

Great. We'll pay them off and then they'll keep making nukes. Great job!



Wall Street and the Dow Jones are happy, but they're not making any jobs. So, the good news is, that portfolios are up some, the bad news is that people can't contribute to a 401K because they don't have living wage jobs. I'm so happy that corporate executives are making millions and billions of dollars more and barely a portion of that is going to the people who actually make and fix things. GREAT!



But they've got us now. Those lucky devils. Out of the frying pan...



Since you brought it up... I don't feel that we'll see the repercussions of the Patriot Act for a couple of years. The slow disintergration of our rights isn't going to happen overnight, but we're following the wrong track right now.



Great, what about the rest of us? What about the obscene cost of prescription drugs? How about some incentives to work on real drugs with the same vigor that you work on hard-on pills? God bless you if you need viagra, but it's right up there in importance with gay marriage. How about curtailing advertising so that drug companies don't WASTE billions of dollars telling us about erection/allergy/heartburn pills? How about finding out exactly how a drug company can make 5 times the average profit than a typical Fortune 500 coupany?

Oh, and the Medicare Prescription Drug package is nothing more than a contribution to the coffers of those drug companies. Probably in response to all the contributions they've given to GWB.



You think that's a good thing? I don't. I don't know about you, but I'm for local control. I seem to recall that the Republican platform used to be based on that ideal. NCLB is simply a plan to destroy public schools. That's it. I'm going to assume you're one of the idiots that thinks that's a peachy keen idea. Because obviously the MARKET is the way to fix our educational system. We trust big companies like Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossing...



Curiously there's no investigation on how they got the billions of dollars of work... it's an investigation of their overcharging on gas.



Obviously Looney ******* Gaylords such as yourselves are wholely worshipping a false idol. I don't see how any self-respecting Republican can look at what slapnuts in the Oval Office is doing and think it's great. Keep listening to your Rush and Hannity, to your Ann Coulter's (what a dumb ******* C-U-N-T she is), and keep telling yourself that "This is MY guy". I'm able to look at myself in the mirror and say I didn't vote for this ******** (I voted for Brown), that I didn't put this disgrace in office, and he's not MY president. He may be the President of the country that I live in, but a real President wouldn't hire a fascist like Ashcroft, make my kids pay his bills, and wouldn't be in Washington telling me how to run every facet of my life.

In parting, just because a guy is a Republican doesn't make him good. No more than just because a guy is a Democrat does it make him good. Or either bad for that matter. Wake up and watch what's going on instead of listening to the rose colored banter of a few mindless in-kind contributions to the Republicans (like for instance Rush "I'm for Personal Responsibility (except for me) and Privacy (only for me)) Limblab.

Grady

maybe charlie brown? o_O

I'm brown!

I don't remember running, though.

Edited, Tue Feb 24 16:06:08 2004 by Atomicflea

what SHADE of brown? typcial, dark or allakhazam border brown?

Ahhh, that Browne. A symbolic yet ultimately empty gestured vote, eh?

;)

Totem

You know Totem, I don't look at it that way. The way I see it is that in the morning, when I turn on the news and see what GWB or Gore or CLinton has messed up, I can look myself in the mirror and honestly say I didn't support them or their flawed agendas. I know in the grand scheme of things that my vote didn't make a bit of difference, but it makes me feel better :P

But, that was then, and this is now. I'll give pretty much anyone a shot over our currently elected leadership. The Democrat who wins the nomination has my vote.

Grady

wouldn't this also be considered turning a blind eye to a matter that needed fixing? sort of like me seeing a woman being raped in an alley, but turning and walking away and pretending I didnt see it to avoid confrontation?

personally I don't mind GWB. I didn't vote for him either, and he's not the brightest crayon in the pack, but we are crawling out of our recession and aren't a 3rd world country yet.