Category: default || By jt3y
I'm not even going to try to pretend I'm impartial any more. Anyone who reads this sludge on a regular basis can figure out which way I'm leaning when it comes to presidential politics.
So here's a quick debate review: Personally, I loved the Dred Scott reference. It's a shame he couldn't work in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, the Alien and Sedition Acts, and "54'40" or Fight." At least we know he paid attention in 10th grade U.S. history. Well, for the first few weeks, anyway.
Kerry isn't winning these debates. Luckily for him, Bush is blowing them big time. He looks like a petulant child. I hope to God, who apparently is also running for office (he was mentioned enough in St. Louis), that the "undecideds" who can't seem to make up their minds were watching.
I still hear leftists who complain there's "no difference" between the candidates. They either aren't watching closely, or they need to step in a big steaming pile of reality.
In the meantime, I ask again: Dred Scott?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Alert Reader Arden informed me Sunday that the “Dred Scott” reference was a “signal” to conservatives that Bush opposes Roe vs. Wade; apparently John Ashcroft and others have made speeches comparing the Dred Scott decision to Roe as an example of judicial precedents that were based on flawed logic.
Salon’s “War Room” has more on that argument:
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room//index.html
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