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...POLITICS: Why all the fuss over Dick Cheney's daughter...
...Kerry in personal terms rarely deployed in American politics, let alone by a candidate's spouse, saying she could only conclude "this is not a good man." Mary, 35, has long avoided attention. "She doesn't like to have the limelight on her," says a friend. The younger Cheney daughter is a Westerner through and through who loves snowboarding and fishing (like her dad) and, until the 2004 race began, lived outside Denver with her longtime partner Heather Poe. But her being gay has long been public knowledge. It is part of almost every media profile of the Cheney family...
John Edwards' wife Elizabeth had another theory to explain Lynne Cheney's reaction. "I think that it indicates a certain degree of shame with respect to her daughter's sexual preferences," Edwards said in an ABC radio interview. But there's no evidence that the Cheneys have treated their daughter with shame. After the vice-presidential debate, Mary and Heather both went up on stage with the rest of the family while the TV cameras were still rolling. Later Kerry said that he had meant to hail the Cheneys as an example of "the way strong families deal with this...
...more likely that the President had overdosed on invective during the long, long course of this election year and the public has become inured to it. Kerry helped that process along by his demeanor throughout (with the exception of his gratuitous mention of the Vice President's gay daughter). The Senator's dignity and consistency made Bush's attacks appear mingy, inaccurate and unpresidential...
...debate whether homosexuality is a choice, the President said he didn't know. Kerry was clear. "It's not a choice," he said. Kerry then made a case against discrimination against gays in the workplace, but the blogging class paid most attention to his mention of the Cheneys' lesbian daughter (see box, page...