Exposing what is not yours to expose
The Senator, in his debate against George W. Bush, exposed a private side of a person who he had no right to even bring up, let alone tell people what she might say. His comment that, "We're all God's children, Bob, and I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was. She's being who she was born as. I think if you talk to anybody, it's not a choice."
I thought it was a horrible answer because it is not right to make political that which is not in the arena. While it may be true that she does help out on the campaign trail, her help is for the effort of her father and her family. It it not because she is a lesbian, nor is it because she wants to somehow influence any decision made.
It is also a horrible answer because he acts as if he has a relationship, as if he is inside that comfort level with her to the point that she might actually open up and tell him that. This is obviously not the case, but the Senator still makes it seem as if it is.
After hearing Mrs. Cheney's response, "Now, you know, I did have a chance to assess John Kerry once more and now the only thing I could conclude: This is not a good man," Mrs. Cheney said. "Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom. This is not a good man. What a cheap and tawdry political trick."
And then I heard Mrs. Edward's rebuttal, "She's overreacted to this and treated it as if it's shameful to have this discussion. I think that's a very sad state of affairs. ... I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences. ... It makes me really sad that that's Lynne's response."
If there is one thing I've learned in the short 29 years of my life, it is that you do not tell a mother - any mother - that she is overreacting when discussing a family matter. And then to take it one step further to actually act as if she can play shrink guessing that she is upset that someone might mention that her daughter is a lesbian.
Mrs. Edwards is too caught up in the Democratic sewage to realize that is is not that Mary Cheney was brought up, but HOW it was up. Kerry made Mary into a token gay and to politicize her private life - to expose that which is not to his to expose.
Teresa Heinz-Kerry doesn't reveal her tax records because she says she does not want to have her, nor her children's lives politicized. Like so much else for liberals: You can have privacy if you agree with them.
How dare Mrs. Edwards act as if she does not understand why Mrs. Cheney might be upset, and to then insult her by saying she is shameful of her daughter!
This is why there are so few moderate Democrats still in any places of power. Only the dirtiest of the liberal leftists can possibly stomach the game they wish to play.
I thought it was a horrible answer because it is not right to make political that which is not in the arena. While it may be true that she does help out on the campaign trail, her help is for the effort of her father and her family. It it not because she is a lesbian, nor is it because she wants to somehow influence any decision made.
It is also a horrible answer because he acts as if he has a relationship, as if he is inside that comfort level with her to the point that she might actually open up and tell him that. This is obviously not the case, but the Senator still makes it seem as if it is.
After hearing Mrs. Cheney's response, "Now, you know, I did have a chance to assess John Kerry once more and now the only thing I could conclude: This is not a good man," Mrs. Cheney said. "Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom. This is not a good man. What a cheap and tawdry political trick."
And then I heard Mrs. Edward's rebuttal, "She's overreacted to this and treated it as if it's shameful to have this discussion. I think that's a very sad state of affairs. ... I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences. ... It makes me really sad that that's Lynne's response."
If there is one thing I've learned in the short 29 years of my life, it is that you do not tell a mother - any mother - that she is overreacting when discussing a family matter. And then to take it one step further to actually act as if she can play shrink guessing that she is upset that someone might mention that her daughter is a lesbian.
Mrs. Edwards is too caught up in the Democratic sewage to realize that is is not that Mary Cheney was brought up, but HOW it was up. Kerry made Mary into a token gay and to politicize her private life - to expose that which is not to his to expose.
Teresa Heinz-Kerry doesn't reveal her tax records because she says she does not want to have her, nor her children's lives politicized. Like so much else for liberals: You can have privacy if you agree with them.
How dare Mrs. Edwards act as if she does not understand why Mrs. Cheney might be upset, and to then insult her by saying she is shameful of her daughter!
This is why there are so few moderate Democrats still in any places of power. Only the dirtiest of the liberal leftists can possibly stomach the game they wish to play.
posted by Edward W. Prather at 18:29
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