Friday, October 27, 2006
Now for this week's "Man, I hate that guy" post:
Excerpts from this BBC Article:
The title: "Bush condemns gay rights ruling"
Fantastic start. Perfectly manufactured to get my attention.
"On Thursday, after signing into a law an immigration bill authorising the construction of a fence along parts of the Mexican border, Mr Bush headed to Iowa to raise money for Republican Jeff Lamberti.
"Mr Lamberti - whom the president mistakenly referred to as "Dave", according to the Associated Press news agency - is trailing his Democratic opponent Leonard Boswell by more than 10 percentage points, polls suggests.
"'Yesterday [Wednesday] in New Jersey we had another activist court that issued a ruling that raises doubts about the institution of marriage,' the president said.
"'I believe marriage is a union between a man and a woman. And I believe it's a sacred institution that is critical to the health of our society and the wellbeing of families, and it must be defended.'"
Kekeke, he just said that gay people aren't part of his society and can't have families.
Maybe I'm just being overly critical...along with the media...for all the stupid stuff this guy says and does each day. Honestly, though, he's the single head of the body of an entire nation. We're supposed to look at that guy, or any leader, and see him as THE prime example of his nation.
I had U.S. prejudices before he was president (to be fair, I didn't like people to begin with but liked that country less). They haven't changed but for the worse.
The more interesting events (since my own personal opinion doesn't have much impact outside of my silly blog) are similar shifts in attitude from countries overseas. North Korea and Israel calling international bluffs on Nuclear control, and Iceland breaking the whale hunting ban.
With all the internal stupidity and scandals, how can the larger nations expect to keep any kind of (forced) order?
Excerpts from this BBC Article:
The title: "Bush condemns gay rights ruling"
Fantastic start. Perfectly manufactured to get my attention.
"On Thursday, after signing into a law an immigration bill authorising the construction of a fence along parts of the Mexican border, Mr Bush headed to Iowa to raise money for Republican Jeff Lamberti.
"Mr Lamberti - whom the president mistakenly referred to as "Dave", according to the Associated Press news agency - is trailing his Democratic opponent Leonard Boswell by more than 10 percentage points, polls suggests.
"'Yesterday [Wednesday] in New Jersey we had another activist court that issued a ruling that raises doubts about the institution of marriage,' the president said.
"'I believe marriage is a union between a man and a woman. And I believe it's a sacred institution that is critical to the health of our society and the wellbeing of families, and it must be defended.'"
Kekeke, he just said that gay people aren't part of his society and can't have families.
Maybe I'm just being overly critical...along with the media...for all the stupid stuff this guy says and does each day. Honestly, though, he's the single head of the body of an entire nation. We're supposed to look at that guy, or any leader, and see him as THE prime example of his nation.
I had U.S. prejudices before he was president (to be fair, I didn't like people to begin with but liked that country less). They haven't changed but for the worse.
The more interesting events (since my own personal opinion doesn't have much impact outside of my silly blog) are similar shifts in attitude from countries overseas. North Korea and Israel calling international bluffs on Nuclear control, and Iceland breaking the whale hunting ban.
With all the internal stupidity and scandals, how can the larger nations expect to keep any kind of (forced) order?
