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2 September, 2004
02 September 2004Jeff Sharlet: I was in Herald Square in Manhattan when Sen. Zell Miller gave his cross-dressing convention speech, and the word on the street -- or, at least, over the cell phones of friends calling in for reports -- was that Miller had just sealed the deal for Bush. But now, looking at the press reports, I'm getting a different story, easily summarized with one word: snarl. Love Miller or hate him, that seems like a fair assesment of a speech that included an approving reference to strangulation. But what I'm not seeing anywhere yet is comment on the fact that Miller took religious nationalism considerably further than Bush has ever been willing to do: "I am moved by... the fact that [Bush] is unashamed of his belief that God is not indifferent to America." That's news. Until now, Bush has kept his God-handicapping limited to the notion that God approves of freedom, and so does America, so we're on the same side. But just as it took a Republican like Nixon to go to China, it took a Democrat like Miller to declare that God likes America best.
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