Soundbites
Oct. 22nd, 2004 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeLTTE at Salon:
For another thing, Mary Cheney is 35 years old--and an employee of her dad's reelection campaign. She's a grown-up hired gun, someone whose gayness the Bush/Cheney campaign uses politically on a regular basis to try to soften the edges of the Bush/Cheney radically anti-gay agenda. If Kerry's political reference of her sexuality is so offensive, why does Bush/Cheney get a pass for doing something worse, which is not only to mention her sexuality but also to use it as a smoke screen for their radically intolerant policies?
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Edwards said the same thing at the VP debate and Cheney thanked him for his kind words!
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Indeed, if the Cheneys want to be offended on their daughter's behalf, they should be offended by the GOP's positions on gay and lesbian issues and the fact that the GOP will use homophobia among its base to score votes, as it did with the failed anti-gay marriage amendment and the fear mongering mailings in Arkansas and West Virginia (threatening banned Bibles and the proliferation of gay and lesbian couples -- horror of horrors -- if the GOP didn't win the election) to name two egregious examples.
Though as a boy I rooted for the 1955 Yankees and cried when the Brooklyn Dodgers won, I knew that the Dodger team was very special. So, too, were the teams of Ted Williams.
Isn't it time to spread the wealth, Yankee fans? Go Sox in the World Series!
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It was inevitable. The minute the Yankees announced their intention to build a new stadium and possibly to demolish part, if not all, of the House That Ruth Built, the Curse of the Bambino moved to New York.
The only way to break the curse is to announce that there will be no new stadium but that there will be a major refurbishment of that shrine in the Bronx.
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If the Boston Red Sox go on to win the World Series, the next big question will be, Will the team be welcomed to the White House like other national champions? After all, according to one of President Bush's favorite simple-minded attack lines, they're "from Massachusetts"!
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After a grueling struggle, a tenacious underdog from Boston defeated an aggressive, overfinanced and arrogant rival. This come-from-behind victory avenges last season's heartbreaking defeat and, as Mr. Vecsey implies, restores the faith of many in a national tradition.
Which raises the question: Is what's good for baseball good for politics as well?
