Saturday, October 16, 2004

Thoughts on Kerry's Mary Cheney Comment

I think that Kerry's comment about Mary Cheney in the debate WAS off-base, for the following reasons:
(1) It was very presumptive of him to assume what Mary Cheney would or wouldn't say; paticularly as "born that way" is much more agreed upon by gay men than by Lesbians.
(2) Suggesting that Bush had not asked his running mate's daughter or that he obviouly didn't know her well seems to me to be a little insulting and personal.
Nonetheless, it wasn't THAT big a deal, in my opinion. I didn' even think of it as possibly a bad move until after the debate when other people mentioned it as such.

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