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Aug. 27th, 2003
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Aug. 27th, 2003 10:13 amWill Hillary run?
from Hillary for President?
Democratic polls right now show [Sen. John] Kerry, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, former House majority leader Richard Gephardt and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean as the Democratic leaders, each of them with 15 or 20 percent of the Democratic vote nationally. Throw Hillary's name into those polls and she gets between 37 percent of the vote (ABC News poll) and 48 percent (Quinnipac Institute). Kerry and the rest drop to single digits.
from Hillary for President?
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Aug. 27th, 2003 01:13 pmA jury here in Louisiana has just sentenced a man to death for the rape of an eight-year-old girl.
I am not comforted by the knowledge of the heroin-related death of the relative who raped me when I was 10. I doubt this girl will be helped in her healing by seeing her stepfather executed, or languishing on death row. If anything, it will teach her that the appropriate response to violence is hatred and more violence.
Vengeance doesn't heal. Only forgiveness heals.
I am not comforted by the knowledge of the heroin-related death of the relative who raped me when I was 10. I doubt this girl will be helped in her healing by seeing her stepfather executed, or languishing on death row. If anything, it will teach her that the appropriate response to violence is hatred and more violence.
Vengeance doesn't heal. Only forgiveness heals.