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Bush has stopped short of public support for a Constitutional amendment, instead making vague statements that he will “work with congressional leaders and others to do what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage.” Nonetheless, this issue is sure to play an important part in the 2004 presidential election. Seventy-eight percent of voters who support Bush’s reelection oppose gay marriage, but so do 48 percent of voters who want to see Bush replaced by a Democrat. This suggests that after the Democratic primaries, we can expect the party...
...Iraq-Afghanistan package brought a gulp from even his staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill. And when polls showed Americans were increasingly disturbed about some of the provisions in the Patriot Act, which they viewed as a dangerous subversion of civil liberties, he sent John Ashcroft on the road to defend it and push for expanding...
...support a marriage ban without heading down the cultural warpath the way Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson did at the 1992 G.O.P. Convention--a tactic that helped lose George H.W. Bush the election. When George W. Bush said last week he would do "what is legally necessary to defend the sanctity of marriage," he sidestepped references to any constitutional amendment...
...anyone who joined the Smoke-out this or any year, I offer my good wishes. Buck up, stub it out, and watch the minute hand of your cigaretteless day creep like an hour hand. My aim here is not to defend smoking; I freely acknowledge that, as a hobby (all right, a habit), it smells, and that Woody Allen was probably being satirical when, in "Sleeper," one of his scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that...
...guards, working with [the] point guards, make it very hard to defend us,” junior Katie Murphy said. “Whatever two guards are playing, they make a way for the offense to gel, using their different strengths...