Bruce,

There is subtle and then there is seeing connections in your head that do not exist on the page.

You said FULL support. Though , your guy said that his 50.5 % win gave him a "mandate" they certainly did not give him FULL support. You were not subtle. You were wrong. You said something which was not true.

I did not say that the government of San Franciso had the FULL support. I said that they were democratically elected and implied that the were making this ban with a democratic mandate.

What Bush did publicly and legally was done with a partial mandate. But what he did publicly and legally was a very very small fraction of what bothers me about what he did.