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Bush has portrayed Dukakis as a paradigmatic "America-bashing" ACLU liberal who isn't proud of his flag, wants to make America weak militarily and wants to raise taxes. Bush has even trumped Dukakis' strongest cards--competent management and the Massachusetts Miracle--by throwing mouthfuls of statistics at the public implying that the Bay State is not half the utopia its Governor and would-be-President would have us believe. Bush supporters point to polls showing the two candidates running neck and neck...
...That is, until Bush began to suggest that Dukakis was not "one of us" precisely because he was too tied to his immigrant roots, as well as too tied to a liberal-academic ideology outside the political mainstream. Result? Dukakis has been much quieter on his immigrant background and ACLU membership...
...exchange for the lobby dropping its demand for the illegal closing of the UN mission. At first, the PLO was given 30 days to divest itself from the PIO, but was later given an extension to December 1. The Director of the PIO, Hassan Abdel-Rahman, and the ACLU have taken the State Department to court, hoping to find more respect for their constitutional rights...
Actually, you're wrong. I'm an Eastern intellectual liberal--the type who contributes to the ACLU, votes for Democrats and wants to keep prayer out school. And I think creationism is silly, just...
Official ACLU/CLUM policy in this area provides, first, that while "the right of protest is an essential element" of free speech, the ACLU would object to "private pressure group activities" that would "restrict a free diverse marketplace of ideas." ACLU is pledged in such situations to "call public attention to the dangers of such consequences...