why is it so impossible to hope that an election campaign could be conducted on real issues? as far as i can tell the issues, for the american media, if not the american people, are: was young Dubya AWOL from the Nat'l Gd? was young Kerry in bed (figuratively speaking) with young "Hanoi Jane?" do homos have a right to the same civil benefits through union that hets have? or should they become the objects of constitutional scorn? what Old Hickory fabulously calls the "Republican Mighty Wurlitzer of sleaze-slinging" is in full bellow already. how much worse, given time and Karl Rove, will things get?
the Democrats cannot allow this to be the way this campaign is conducted. i have been in a relationship with another woman for aeons, but i see this whole "gay marriage" thing as a red herring to divert us all, whichever side we are on, from the pressing issues of the time. social, environmental, economic, international, educational issues in need of immediate attention, if this country is to continue to exist with any pretense of democracy, any hope for quality of life for our children, our own old age, the continued financial solvency of the middle class, etc etc ad infinitum.
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