[Cerek]

Originally posted by Jonas Strider: quote: Originally posted by Cerek: Jonas Strider - Yes, President Bush does represent my moral values better than Kerry does. And, YES, that IS important to a large part of the country. In fact, it is apparanlty important to a majority of the country. You feel he doesn't represent your moral values - that's fine and dandy. You voted for your guy and I voted for mine. That's all either of us can do. [/QB]

yep, looks like you'll be getting all the moral values you wanted. imo all those values bush supports discriminate against others not on his red team. he has no sense of uniting this country, he will divide us further. already he has begun pursuing an amendment to ban gay-lesbian marriages. this clearly discriminates and imo unconstitutional. another 4 years i must bear. don't get me wrong. i'm not mad just very concerned, cerek. [/QUOTE]To be honost, Jonas, I'm more than a little worried about Bush myself and even now, a small part of me wishes Kerry would have won. I didn't feel I could vote for him in good conscious, but even if I had, my vote would not have changed the results.

I saw a news clip this morning that many of the Christian supporters of Bush are now taking him to task and pushing for him to follow up on the promises they feel he made - including the pursuit of the Marriage Amendment. But Bush has made it clear that his #1 priority is dealing with Social Security, so the Marriage Amendment is being put on a back burner for now. Personally, I really doubt Bush will ever actually attempt that - or if he does, the Amendment will be worded in such a way that Congress is sure to defeat it. This would actually give Bush the best of both worlds. He can claim he tried to keep his promise and can blame it's defeat on the Democratic liberals in Congress.

Even if he DOES actually pursue the Amendment, and DOES manage to get Congress to approve it (a situation I consider more than a little unlikely - but the Repubs did gain even more control of Congress than they had before), I believe the next President will move to have it repealed. I honostly just do NOT see that Amendment being passed and made a permanent part of the Constitution. Maybe I'm wrong and just being naive', but that's my gut feeling on the situation.

I also have similar reservations about the Patriot Act and hope to see it either repealed or at least greatly reduced in the power it grants authorities.