i must admit, when i first saw "hopes for a 'better' president", i felt a big 'groan' coming on. plus, i was a little dissappointed to see it was attributed to the vocalist of one of my very favorite musical acts, korn. but, alas, it was one in another long line of slanted headlines. actually, it kinda took my breath away because jonathan davis did just about the opposite of many who try to come off as experts when he said "But what do we really know? Maybe he (Bush) is doing the right thing, you don't know." it's hard to pin him down based on what he said (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1536179/20060712/korn.jhtml). you think he's a liberal when he says "global warming and abortion issues", but then he sounds conservative/libertarian when he says "my gun rights" (my emphasis added). then you go back and reread and look at how he prefaced that passage. he used the words "human life". when talking about abortion, don't most liberals lean on the words "choice" and "privacy"? then, he sounds positively like a realist, albeit again slightly conservative/libertarian, when he acknowledges the role oil plays in our lives.
you'd need him to answer some questions more definitively to find out where specifically he stands on certain issues, but overall, it was somewhat refreshing.
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