Comments on: Clueless Jake Weisberg: One of these things is not like the others http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1382 BTC News: News, politics, opinion and satire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1382/comment-page-1#comment-70654 Joe Sun, 11 Jun 2006 05:09:32 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1382#comment-70654 Thanks ... I was going by your statement on the Weisberg piece, which is behind a subscription wall (though one can get a free trial), so I didn't totally trust his judgment. As to your perhaps rhetorical question, bigotry in some fashion has something to do with it, plain and simple. Gay marriage is so dangerous, as are those darn federal courts with a majority of judges appointed by Republicans, that you simply cannot trust it to the states. Thanks … I was going by your statement on the Weisberg piece, which is behind a subscription wall (though one can get a free trial), so I didn’t totally trust his judgment.

As to your perhaps rhetorical question, bigotry in some fashion has something to do with it, plain and simple. Gay marriage is so dangerous, as are those darn federal courts with a majority of judges appointed by Republicans, that you simply cannot trust it to the states.

]]> By: Weldon Berger http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1382/comment-page-1#comment-70562 Weldon Berger Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:44:43 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1382#comment-70562 Joe, Ford is <a href="http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/election/article/0,1406,KNS_630_4736149,00.html" rel="nofollow">on record</a> supporting the amendment, although I'm sure he doesn't characterize it as bigotry. I don't understand why he and other Democrats in conservative states don't take the states rights path on the issue. Joe, Ford is on record supporting the amendment, although I’m sure he doesn’t characterize it as bigotry. I don’t understand why he and other Democrats in conservative states don’t take the states rights path on the issue.

]]> By: Weldon Berger http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1382/comment-page-1#comment-70554 Weldon Berger Sat, 10 Jun 2006 22:57:54 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1382#comment-70554 Christopher, I think your definition of pandering is a bit over broad — my dictionary says it's "to subserve or minister to base passions, tendencies, or designs," and I don't think raising the minimum wage or championing any of the other things you mention qualifies — but my quarrel wasn't with Weisberg's use of the word, only with his belief that raising the minimum wage and institutionalizing discrimination wouldn't have an impact on anyone and that the former carries any risk of "alienating the centre." Christopher, I think your definition of pandering is a bit over broad — my dictionary says it’s “to subserve or minister to base passions, tendencies, or designs,” and I don’t think raising the minimum wage or championing any of the other things you mention qualifies — but my quarrel wasn’t with Weisberg’s use of the word, only with his belief that raising the minimum wage and institutionalizing discrimination wouldn’t have an impact on anyone and that the former carries any risk of “alienating the centre.”

]]> By: Christopher Edwards http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1382/comment-page-1#comment-70535 Christopher Edwards Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:19:53 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1382#comment-70535 Just because you agree with it and see a benefit, doesn't mean its not pandering. I'd love to be pandered to a lot more, come to think of it: mandated affordable housing, raising the profile of artists and designers through enterprise zones for creatives, same-sex civil unions, same-sex immigration sponsorship, higher gasoline taxes, more transit funding. And on and on. I can give a list of why all these things are necessary and helpful. But it would still be pandering. Just because you agree with it and see a benefit, doesn’t mean its not pandering. I’d love to be pandered to a lot more, come to think of it: mandated affordable housing, raising the profile of artists and designers through enterprise zones for creatives, same-sex civil unions, same-sex immigration sponsorship, higher gasoline taxes, more transit funding. And on and on. I can give a list of why all these things are necessary and helpful. But it would still be pandering.

]]> By: Joe http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1382/comment-page-1#comment-70529 Joe Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:53:09 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1382#comment-70529 I meant to say Ford's alleged bigotry here is more upsetting though Obama's support of Lieberman etc. leaves a bad taste as well. I meant to say Ford’s alleged bigotry here is more upsetting though Obama’s support of Lieberman etc. leaves a bad taste as well.

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