I don't find supporting an amendment that will never see the light of day is that cosmic an event.

NEither do I; it simply represents to me his (W's) lack of qualification to hold his position. He not only doesn't deserver to be elected or re=appointed; he doesn't qualify. You can take na oath to defend the Constituion or you can swear to uphold some narrow set of religous or moral values whioch one minority prefers. But you can't have iot both ways without being open to charges of blatant hypocrisy. I don't care where George gets his beliefs from, but I get really pissed when he starts trying to dictate mine to me.

No cosmic event involved, agreed; neither was the original framing a cosmic event. But in human terms, as to the fate of men and women on planet Earth, it was an event with a LOT of consequence, which W is now trivializing.

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