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Saturday, 28 October 2006

Bush forced into a corner on civil unions?

President Bush is interviewed alongside First Lady Laura Bush and squirms as his meagre intellect sees no way out of acquiescing that gays should not be denied the rights that civil unions would bring, without making him look like a complete s..t [*):

- the classic weak bully cornered in the most lethal of settings, an apparently cosy domestic chat with an interviewer in the presence of his wife.

That's how I read the body language in this revealing interview, anyway.
(thru Andrew Sullivan)

[*] ... and Bill almost, but not quite, breaks his own rule about the use of profanity in this blog; I hope my regular readers will forgive this near-aberration on my part.

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