John Edwards and Wife Speak Out On Coulter's Comments

   In the New York Times is a piece on the continuing Ann Coulter slur towards John Edwards at the CPAC get together.

   It is noted that  John McCain , Rudolph W. Giuliani , and Mitt Romney have denounced the comments by the " Vixen of Venom " but that was only after the Democrats, gay rights groups and many blogger's raised hell about the comments.

Ms. Coulter, asked for a reaction to the Republican criticism, said in an e-mail message: “C’mon, it was a joke. I would never insult gays by suggesting that they are like John Edwards. That would be mean.”      NYT

3/03/2007

John Edwards released the following statement today:

Ann Coulter's use of an anti-gay slur yesterday was un-American and indefensible. In America, we strive for equality and embrace diversity. The kind of hateful language she used has no place in political debate or our society at large.

I believe it is our moral responsibility to speak out against that kind of bigotry and prejudice every time we encounter it.         Source

 

Elizabeth Edwards   Source
3/03/2007

When Miss Coulter spoke about John at the conservative convention in Washington yesterday, she used a word that she intended as a nasty and derogatory suggestion. John and I have long ago shrugged off the vile words of this person. When she made a joke about the exact moment of death of Charlie Dean (Howard's brother and a schoolmate of mine), and when she attacked the courageous 9-11 widows, she told you all you need to know about what she is made of: her compassion -- or lack thereof.  Now we need to find out about you.  

Although her words did not hurt us, they may have hurt some in the gay community. We are all sick and tired of anyone supporting or applauding or introducing hate words into the national dialogue, tired of people thinking that words that cause others pain are fair game. And we are sick and tired of people like Miss Coulter thinking that her use of loaded words about the homosexual community in this country is remotely humorous or appropriate.     The Article

 

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What Congress Must Do To Restore Civil Liberties

    An editorial in the Sunday edition of the New York Times takes a look at some of the things that our Congress needs to tackle in order to undo some of the illegal attacks on the United States citizens civil liberties which the  Bush Department of Constitutional Shredding,Inc. has undertaken over the past six years not just against it's own people, but prisoner's of war also.

   Three of the major tasks to be looked at would be the restoration of Habeas Corpus, stopping the illegal spying on the citizens and actually banning torture, for real this time.      

NYT

Many of the tasks facing Congress involve the way the United States takes prisoners, and how it treats them. There are two sets of prisons in the war on terror. The military runs one set in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. The other is even more shadowy, run by the C.I.A. at secret places.

Close the C.I.A. Prisons                                                           When the Military Commissions Act passed, Mr. Bush triumphantly announced that he now had the power to keep the secret prisons open. He cast this as a great victory for national security. It was a defeat for America’s image around the world. The prisons should be closed.

Ban Extraordinary Rendition

This is the odious practice of abducting foreign citizens and secretly flying them to countries where everyone knows they will be tortured. It is already illegal to send a prisoner to a country if there is reason to believe he will be tortured. The administration’s claim that it got “diplomatic assurances” that prisoners would not be abused is laughable.

   Maybe after Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the group of fools are indicted they can be subjected to some of the same which they have subjected prisoners to.

   If they want to get Christian about things how about, " An eye for an eye"?

 

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