Porn News

Cheney Backs Bush on Gays

WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday he supports President Bush’s call for a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, though one of his daughters is gay and he has said in the past the issue should be left to the states.

“The president’s taken the clear position that he supports a constitutional amendment,” Cheney said in an interview with MSNBC. “I support him.”

Cheney said during the 2000 campaign, and again last month, that he prefers to see states handle the issue of gay marriage. His openly lesbian daughter, Mary Cheney, is an aide in the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, but the vice president declined to discuss her.

“One of the most unpleasant aspects of this business is the extent of which private lives are intruded upon when these kinds of issues come up,” he said. “I really have always considered my private — my daughters’ lives private and I think that’s the way it ought to remain.”

Cheney said he will be on Bush’s re-election ticket in the fall, as the president himself has said, although there is speculation to the contrary. Cheney, who has had four heart attacks, said his health has been good and he couldn’t think of any circumstances that would prompt to decline the role.

“He’s asked me to serve again and I’ll be happy to do that,” Cheney said.

He dismissed talk that he has become a liability to Bush, with Democrats pounding the administration over allegations of profiteering in Iraq by oil services giant Halliburton, which Cheney once headed, and the vice president’s frequent but now much-doubted claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

“I think the fact that you become a lightning rod is, it goes with the turn,” he said. “I’m not concerned about that.”

Cheney’s popularity with the public has dropped in recent weeks, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey. In October, 43 percent of the public had a favorable view and 26 percent had an unfavorable view. In the last two weeks of February, people were about evenly split, with 33 percent favorable and 36 percent unfavorable.

The vice president’s popularity declined with most groups, with the biggest drop among Republicans. Seventy-four percent of Republicans saw him favorably in October and 58 percent viewed him that way in late February. Six in 10 in late February said Bush should keep Cheney as his running mate, while a quarter said Bush should pick someone else.

The Annenberg survey in late February of 2,700 people has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points

In his interview, the vice president also took a shot at the leading Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, and his chief rival, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who have skewered Bush over lagging job growth even as the economy improves.

“If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years, the kind of tax increases that both Kerry and Edwards have talked about, we would not have had the kind of job growth that we’ve had,” Cheney said.

 

372 Views

Related Posts

AEE Presents ‘Dirty Little Secret Live’ With Ryan Pownall Wed.

On Wednesday, January 22, the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) presents tea "Dirty Little Secret Live!," a live comedy and podcast event hosted by "Pillow Talk" creator Ryan Pownall.

A Golden Night in Hollywood: 2025 XMAs Shine on Adult Entertainment’s Best

LOS ANGELES — Paraphrasing the unofficial US Postal Service motto, neither rain nor cold nor the chaos of natural disasters can stop the adult entertainment community from the completion of its appointed duty every January: to honor the artistic and…

XBIZ Expo Kicks Off in High Gear With Product Debuts, Engaging Seminars

LOS ANGELES — The first official day of XBIZ Expo kicked off Friday morning on the mezzanine level of the Loews Hollywood Hotel, which was filled with prominent buyers and sellers within the pleasure products market and other areas of…

Cherry Kiss is Taking the Ride

Don’t let the kitschy-cutesy name fool you—Cherry Kiss is on a quest for worldwide domination. This European Queen of the Extreme Screen has a plan. The 2024 AVN International Female Performer of the Year, Kiss has more than a thousand…

MYLF Releases 3 New Scenes

Jan 17, 2025 4:31 PM PSTMIAMI — MYLF has dropped three new scenes, featuring Sophia Locke, Sandy Love, Delilah Dagger, and others, across its network of sites. First, for Mommy's Little Man, Locke stars alongside Anthony Pierce in “How to…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.