Word: comfortable
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Republicans got some wicked comfort noting that for more than a century, Democrats have been kidnapping Lincoln without credit. Historian David Donald wrote an essay in 1951 on "Getting Right with Lincoln," detailing how Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer." There is a suspicion that very few have studied McCullough's splendid text, particularly the first part. Bush admitted he jumped over some of that and went straight...
This may be cold comfort, but when it comes to having children, nobody knows what is in store. For biological parents, kids are a roll of the DNA dice. Adoptive parents face greater risks, for their children carry a knapsack of genetic and cultural imponderables. Yet there are couples who heroically try to create a home, a family, a rich life for orphans from the U.S. and, increasingly, the Third World...
...believe in the Almighty. What about the constitutional ban on "religious test((s))" for public office? the Founding Fathers would want to know. What about Tom + Jefferson's conviction that it is possible for a nonbeliever to be a moral person, "find((ing)) incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise"? Even George Washington must shudder in his sleep to hear the constant emphasis on "Judeo-Christian values." It was he who wrote, "We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land . . . every person may here worship God according to the dictates...
...President in another issue. What would he do if his granddaughter someday sought an abortion? George Bush, the grandfather, answered sensibly and humanely: He would try to dissuade her but would stand by her, regardless of the decision, which would ultimately be hers. That sounded too close for comfort to the idea that each woman should have the final say, and thus came close to contradicting the Republican position that would outlaw abortion...
Some delegates also point out that having a Republican lieutenant governor, Paul A. Cellucci, and a Republican state treasurer, Joseph D. Malone '78, only adds to the comfort from having a Republican governor...