The next day

I guess the marriage amendment didn’t have as much affect as i thought in Michigan. However, I was reminded this morning that in Florida, another state where Bush pulled off a solid win, one issue on the ballot was to require parental notification before a minor can have an abortion. This probably also brought out huge numbers of conservatives who cast their ballots for the President.
I saw Edward Rendell, the (Democratic) governor of Pennsylvania, on “Today” this morning. I think he inadvertently made a statement about why Kerry lost this election and how the mostly north-eastern and west coast Democratic party has lost touch with the majority of America. You probably know by now that this election year “moral values” was the issue cited as most important by the greatest number of voters. Of the 22% of voters who said moral values were most important, 80% voted for Bush. So back to “Today” and Ed Rendell. When he was asked if Democrats were able to embrace America’s moral values, he claimed that the party was very concerned about moral issues and then cited things such as child care and social security. Another guest on the show, a representative from a liberal feminist organization, thought that moral values married women are concerned about are “clean air, clean water, and safety.” Raise your hand if you think anybody who said to exit pollsters that moral values were most important to them meant the moral value of Social Security? No. It doesn’t happen. Social Security was one of the choices. It’s not that the majority of our Democratic leaders don’t share our moral values, they don’t even understand what the term means.
In completely unrelated news, A Canadian man, angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport, stripped naked, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo jet, officials said on Wednesday.