Desperation from a Boston Globe columnist: "Cheney the grandfather gets it right"

[ProSense]

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Cheney the grandfather gets it right

By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist | April 11, 2007

WHAT A BETTER society this would be if Vice President Dick Cheney were our national grandfather instead of our global grump. Last week, after attacks on Iran, Congress, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Cheney told ABC Radio he was "looking forward" to the arrival of a new grandson, being born to his lesbian daughter, Mary.

"I obviously think it's important for us as a society to be tolerant and respectful of whatever arrangements people enter into," Cheney said. He reaffirmed that "each state ought to have the capacity to decide how they want to handle those issues."

Any time Cheney is touchy-feely, there is hope for the country. In the 2000 debates he said, "We live in a free society and freedom means freedom for everybody. . . people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into."

Cheney is indeed a poster dad for the nation's struggle to respect same-sex couples. Like many parents, he accepts and loves his child, regardless of sexual orientation. Yet, like many an American, he agonizes how openly to support people like his child.

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Cheney could not care less about other people's daughters and families. He is a lying hypocrite.

What's wrong with that story is the writer is projecting. Cheney isn't advocating anything, he doesn't deserve credit for a position he doesn't have.

Impeach Bush/Cheney!

[Missy M]

1. The only way I would believe he means his words is if.....

his daughter wasn't gay.

[Demit]

2. Awww. What a guy, Cheney. The kind of grandad who tells Senators to go fuck themselves.

I guess Derrick didn't note that in his valentine to Dick.

[myrna minx]

4. Or shoot a senior citizen in the face.

Cheney just makes you want to cuddle.

[melody]

3. I guess all the thousands of people dying for his pocketbook matter not at all

Cheney's just a heckuva great grandpa.

[Blaukraut]

5. agreed, ProSense

There is no change in position with Cheney at all. He may well care about his daughter and grandchild, but he despises her sexual orientation and is not about to advocate gay marriage and equal rights for same sex couples.
That's quite a stretch of the imagination by the author of this piece.

[Tracer]

6. I don't know what came over Jackson.

He is, ordinarily, the most liberal of writers.

I read his column regularly, and this is the first one that I have to totally disagree with.

[terrya]

7. Gee, thanks Dick. I guess your tacit endorsement of FMA didn't really matter, eh?

Yeah, right, fucking whatever.

Those are just words. It's this legal recognition of gay and lesbian marriages and families that matter. And this administration has been nothing short of aggressively hostile towards same-sex families.

[ProSense]

8. It's Imus!

Americans wake up to inequality with every outrage, and go back to sleep when the outrage subsides. In the interim we get force fed false or inappropriate choices, such as Armstrong Williams as a sign that the media is moving toward diversity.

It's the MSM's sneaky way of giving credibility to despicable characters.