Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!proxad.net!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Initial impressions from the Japanese premier of Fahrenheit 9/11 Date: 19 Aug 2004 15:24:35 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 29 Message-ID: <73fde4f0.0408191424.35730749@posting.google.com> References: <73fde4f0.0408160649.9fe8883@posting.google.com> <1ck2i09g46oqqgqfpfsqvhr12nmatq5uln@4ax.com> <73fde4f0.0408190719.3159eb4a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.32.36.230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1092954275 26815 127.0.0.1 (19 Aug 2004 22:24:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:16728 Michael Cash wrote in message news:... > On 19 Aug 2004 08:19:15 -0700, worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) brought > down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > > >Michael Cash wrote in message news:... > >> > >> I wonder if anyone would like to speculate, based on their perceptions > >> of pre-rehab Rush, the nature of his comments on New Jersey Governor > >> McGreevey announcing that he is gay. > >> > >Since the guy was a republican I'd say Rush was torn, but leaned > >towards saying the man's sexuality shouldn't be a big issue, instead > >saying it's a Democratic plot of some sort. Aren't the Dems > >(predictably, as they should be expected to do) clammoring for > >McGreevey's resignation now in hopes of putting their own guy in the > >office? I imagine Rush would rather have a Gay man who cheated on his > >wife -- but is Republican -- in office than a Democrat. > > Bingo. > > Now add "homophobe" to one of the charges against him I see evidence > against. > Actually it doesn't do anything to change my opinion of him; lowers it, actually, because he'd rather be a Republican than anything else. Partisan politics -- and those that believe in it so strongly that they'll put aside all other moral beliefs -- really bothers me. John W.