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Asked by moderator Bernard Shaw whether "a male who loves a male and a female who loves a female [should] have all--all--the constitutional rights enjoyed by every American citizen?" neither Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) nor former Defense Secretary Richard B. Cheney could respond with an unequivocal...
...best Lieberman could muster was an "I'm thinking about it." For Cheney, more bluntly, the issue was "no slam dunk." Padding their responses with empty rhetoric, both candidates did a poor job of concealing the message their answers conveyed: Implied in the constitutional promise of equal rights for all citizens is an exception clause with respect to gays...
Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman may have set a gold standard for civilized political discourse in their debate last Thursday night, but with the Main Event, Part II just two days away in the heat of a race that just won't budge, no one in either camp seems to have any interest in keeping it up. Not even Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman...
...Cheney banged the drums the very next day, calling Gore's proposals "hogwash" and "double talk," and on Sunday Lieberman hit back - albeit in that high-road, why-are-they-attacking-us form of attack. "I don't know who that Dick Cheney was at the debate on Thursday night," Mr. Lieberman offered. "He was a rational, civil man and he goes back out and becomes an attack...
...Lieberman brings a sweet twist of sanctimony to the attack-dog role and he delivers the loftier offensives. "The fact is that George Bush's record on the environment in Texas is horrible," he said in an interview on CNN. "They have the most toxically polluted air in America. Houston is the dirtiest city. Kids in Houston don't know whether they can go out to play every day until the school officials or the local officials check the air quality." That's a down and dirty as Joe gets...