Republican presidential candidate John McCain, looking to improve his standing with the party’s conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned.
“I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,” the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states.
McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who “strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench.”
After months of heated rhetoric slamming President Bush’s Iraq policy, the Senate’s top Democrat moved into new terrain by declaring the Iraq war a worse blunder than Vietnam.
“This war is a serious situation. It involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country,” Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, told CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.”
“So we should take everything seriously. We find ourselves in a very deep hole and we need to find a way to dig out of it.”
Asked whether he considers it a worse blunder than Vietnam, Reid responded, “Yes.”
Worst foreign policy blunder in US history, and yet “fightin’ Harry” thought it was more important to let the Senate have their week off this week instead of continung to try to do something to get out of Iraq…
this from the mouth of the man who just a few days ago said:
As he prepares to lead Senate Democrats in the debate on President Bush’s Iraq policy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada says he has no second thoughts about his vote in 2002 authorizing the president to go to war.
“The evidence at the time was persuasive — especially if you go back and look and see what Secretary of State Colin Powell did at the United Nations,” Reid said Tuesday.
“We’ve learned since then that the evidence was manipulated,” he said. “So the answer is no. I’m not going to apologize.”
made their own sex-ed video to promote condom use (as a school project!): Oakland Tribune
ANGELICA LUNA-ACOSTA remembers drifting to sleep during the “cheesy” sex education videos she and her classmates had to watch in fifth grade.
Few eyelids will be drooping this afternoon during the premiere of a student-made film, “The Condom Project.”
“It’s all like real talk,” said Luna-Acosta, the movie’s 17-year-old director. “It’s kids in our age group, and it’s funny. It’s serious, but with comic relief.”
The 15-minute movie was written, acted, filmed and edited almost entirely by students from East Oakland’s Fremont Federation, a campus with four small high schools. With a hip-hop soundtrack and multidimensional characters — such as a peer educator who makes some poor decisions at a party — it was clearly made with its audience in mind.
The invitation to the Valentine’s Day movie screening and discussion includes colorful euphemisms, including “Don’t Be Silly, Cover Your Willy.”
Those who come to the event will come away with a goody bag of chocolates and a couple of condoms.
Seems a lot more sensible than those abstinence-only programs…
[T]he reason is President Bush. His administration has mishandled the logistics of the war and the politics of its perception in nearly equal measure, from Abu Ghraib to the execution of Saddam Hussein. Conservatives voted for George W. Bush in 2000 because they expected him to be the opposite of Bill Clinton-and so, unfortunately, he has proved.
Where Clinton seemed a man of enormous political competence and no principle, Bush has been a man of principle and very little political competence. The security concerns after the attacks of September 11 and the general tide of American conservatism carried Republicans through the elections of 2002 and 2004. But by 2006 Bush had squandered his party’s advantages, until even the specter of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House was not enough to keep the Republicans in power.[.]
But hasn’t that always been the problem? Again and again, he has done the right thing in the wrong way, until, at last, his wrongness has overwhelmed his rightness. How can conservatives continue to support this man in much of anything he tries to do? Iraq is not America’s failure, and it is not conservatism’s failure. We are where we are because of George W. Bush’s failure. [.]
All the 2008 Republican presidential candidates should understand the task they face over the next two years.
Can you tell this dude they twice voted for this man and cannot now disown him.
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NJ Civil Unions Begin
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: February 19, 2007 – 12:01 am ET
(Trenton, New Jersey) New Jersey became the third state to permit civil unions for same-sex couples at midnight Monday and while LGBT civil rights activists called the new law a step in the right direction are vowing to continue the fight for marriage.
Despite the Presidents Day holiday some county clerks offices will be open today for couples to get licenses. Offices in Asbury Park and Lambertville, which have large gay communities, opened at midnight.
After couples apply for civil union licenses they must wait 72-hours before they can have a ceremony – just like with marriages.
I saw that on my local news last night, and they actually did a nice profile on 2 women who have been together for 20 years and are going to get married on Thursday night after midnight.
I am so excited about this. It is one more step in the right direction. Now if we can only get the rest of the dang country to catch up, I will be really happy. LOL
sucking up to the fundies some more: AP/Yahoo
He is such a steaming pile of dung.
CNN
Worst foreign policy blunder in US history, and yet “fightin’ Harry” thought it was more important to let the Senate have their week off this week instead of continung to try to do something to get out of Iraq…
indeed,
this from the mouth of the man who just a few days ago said:
so, any complicity he had is the debacle is just too bad, I guess.
march on the pentagon: 3.17.07
Draft Al Gore: 2008
Not going to apologize for his lack of curiosity or inability to tell the truth from lies. Why am I not surprised?
made their own sex-ed video to promote condom use (as a school project!): Oakland Tribune
Seems a lot more sensible than those abstinence-only programs…
(h/t to Ann at feministing.)
In unhappy theocon land, looking ahead to ’08…Seeing First Things
Can you tell this dude they twice voted for this man and cannot now disown him.
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He was THEIR poster boy with a man-date. They deserve to have the rotting stench of his presidency follow them till the end of time.
some good news!!!!!
I saw that on my local news last night, and they actually did a nice profile on 2 women who have been together for 20 years and are going to get married on Thursday night after midnight.
I am so excited about this. It is one more step in the right direction. Now if we can only get the rest of the dang country to catch up, I will be really happy. LOL