Current mood:

calm

Violence, and sex, and things
Одна из любимых тем нашей совершенно беспристрастной прессы - рассказ о том, какой Буш тупой и прямолинейный, а Керри - мастер нюанса. Ну что ж, если кому интересно - образец мастерства:

Jennings: If you believe that life begins at conception, is even a first-trimester abortion not murder?

Kerry: No, because it's not the form of life that takes personhood in the terms that we have judged it to be in the past. It's the beginning of life. Does life begin? Yes, it begins.

Словом, да, жизнь начинается при зачатии и нет, это не та жизнь, которую государство должно охранять? Что за бред? Зачем тогда вообще говорить, что это - жзинь, да еще в контексте своей очень католической веры?

Jennings: They also say, of course, that you can know a man by his friends. President Bush says that you're kowtowing to Hollywood. And you described the people who were with you in Radio City Music Hall [at a fund-raiser] the other night as the heart and soul of America. Both President Clinton and Vice President [Al] Gore had called in their time on Hollywood for less violence and less sex. Do you feel a need to do the same thing?

Kerry: Yes, I think there should be less violence and less sex. And when I talked about the heart and soul, I'm talking about the artistic expression. I'm talking about sort of the, I mean, I believe in the arts. I think that there's a great expression in it, and there's always this struggle. You know, does life imitate art or art imitate life? Which comes first? It's a little of both.

I do think we have a responsibility, as leaders, to stand up. I think there were people at that, at that concert we had in New York who stepped over the line. I've said that. They don't speak for me. They speak for themselves. I will stand up and struggle, as others have, to try to get that right balance between violence, and sex, and things.

Поясните мне кто-нибудь вот эту вот глубокую мысль, а?