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Dec. 9th, 2007 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsBack when Hillary Clinton described Dick Cheney as Darth Vader, a number of people pointed out that this was an unfair comparison. For example, Darth Vader once served in the military. [Paul Krugman, NYT]
Compare Rudy Giuliani: "I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues." Contrast: ""Virtually every economics Ph.D. who has worked in the Bush Administration acknowledges that the tax cuts of the past six years haven't paid for themselves." [Justin Fox, Time Magazine]
Sounds like a character issue to me.
Another Willand Mitt Romney quote: "There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution."
No, Mr. Romney. That's not what it says. What the constitution says (Article 6) is that no oaths of office shall ever be required of the government for elected officials. It says nothing about the press or the people requesting an explanation from those seeking high office, and in fact allowing people to request that is a matter of free speech and principle.
Compare Rudy Giuliani: "I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues." Contrast: ""Virtually every economics Ph.D. who has worked in the Bush Administration acknowledges that the tax cuts of the past six years haven't paid for themselves." [Justin Fox, Time Magazine]
Sounds like a character issue to me.
Another Willand Mitt Romney quote: "There are some who would have a presidential candidate describe and explain his church's distinctive doctrines. To do so would enable the very religious test the founders prohibited in the Constitution."
No, Mr. Romney. That's not what it says. What the constitution says (Article 6) is that no oaths of office shall ever be required of the government for elected officials. It says nothing about the press or the people requesting an explanation from those seeking high office, and in fact allowing people to request that is a matter of free speech and principle.
