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The U.S. Needs a Divorce from Bush

Well, its happened. Bush tossed his big ugly hat into the ring and joined the extremist chorus of people clamoring to inscribe blatant discrimination into the U.S. Constitution. He claimed an "overwhelming consensus in our country for protecting the institution of marriage." Well, he's right--I overwhelmingly support protection of marriage from becoming a stigma of discrimination. In fact, the rest of the country also agrees with me, according to new polling data (PDF).

Perhaps more depressing than this expected move by our idiot president, is the abscence of a loud, clear-cut outrage from Kerry or Edwards. Kerry did issue a statement saying he would vote against such an amendment, but he still insists "marriage is between a man and a woman" and that "marriage should be left to the states." Edwards has no formal statement on the subject on his website, but said today that he doesn't "personally support gay marriage myself," and that "it's for the states to decide."

This is the best the democrats can do? Leave it to the states? You know, this issue illustrates one of the reasons that so many people like Bush (beyond the total and complete propoganda that panders to them, that is). He makes a decision and sticks with it. He's not afraid of it. He says I think this is wrong, and I'm going to keep saying I think its wrong, and I'm going to say everyone who disagrees with me is wrong. Now, he does happen to be wrong most of the time, but so are a lot of people, and I think those people tend to appreciate someone else "sticking with their convictions" (as opposed to reconsidering their positions as new evidence contradicts them). Even though this attitude has led the president to certain trouble (i.e. on WMD, tax cuts, jobs, etc.), people still respect it.

The democrats have been doing so well for the last few weeks. They haven't backed down. They've been calling the right on their bullshit. Today was a perfect opportunity for Kerry to step forward and say something like:

Today the President of the United States urged the country to endorse a rewrite of the constitution that inscribes discrimination into the founding law of the land. Perhaps he should cross out a few lines in the Declaration of Independence while he's at it, so that it says 'All men are created equal, as long as they only want to marry women.'

He didn't say this of course, but can you imagine if he had? People would respect this--they would react to it. They would see someone who stepped up, wasn't afraid of saying how they felt, and who called things as they saw them.

No question that the U.S. needs a divorce from Bush, but today I'm not too encouraged about our upcoming engagement to Kerry or Edwards.

Posted on February 24, 2004 07:28 PM

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