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Whatever. These three suffer from bad tactics. It's the fourth that's really troubling:

#1 Reason to Ban Human Cloning: Hillary Clinton

Disagree with Senator Clinton's policies all you want, but there's no justification for this kind of ad hominem attack. Here's FRC's first "core principle": "God exists and is sovereign over all creation. He created human beings in His image." Attacking Clinton like this, as a person, is an attack on the image of God.

Instead of informing public policy debates and countering the left's argument that pro-life and pro-family causes are inherently misogynist, misanthropic, prejudiced, and unthinking, these cookies feed such stereotypes.

Bill Clinton preached a "scripture-laden speech" against President Bush yesterday at Manhattan's Riverside Church. "It's wrong to demonize and cartoonize one another, and to ignore evidence, and to make false charges and to bear false witness," Clinton said, referring to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads. "Sometimes I think our friends on the other side have become the people of the Nine Commandments."

Other examples of bearing false witness, he said, are those who call the pro-choice position pro-abortion. ("I have yet to meet anyone who is for abortion," he said) and those who "demonize" same-sex relationships. "I'm not ashamed to say gay people shouldn't be discriminated against, and I don't think Jesus had much to say on the subject," he said.

"I believe President Bush is a good Christian," he added. "I believe that his faith in Jesus saved him. I believe it gave him new purpose and direction to his life. But that doesn't mean that he doesn't see through a glass darkly. It doesn't mean that you can have a bunch of people acting on your behalf, and pretending like you don't know them, to say that the seven people who were on John Kerry's swift boat don't know what they're talking about when they say he deserves the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts."

Kevin Madden, spokesman for the Bush campaign, told the New York Daily News, "It's astonishing that anyone would use a church pulpit to launch a baseless attack containing nothing but false accusations."

Oh, come on. Bill Clinton accuses Republicans of only following nine of the Ten Commandments and of bearing false witness, and the best response you can come up with is that he's misusing a pulpit?

The apocalyptic former priest who messed up the Marathon
Back in 1987, Margaret Thatcher thanked Irish priest Neal Horan for his "sterling efforts in the cause of promoting world peace." Yesterday, Horan disrupted one of the symbolic events in the world-peace-themed Olympics, the marathon, by attacking frontrunner Vanderlei de Lima. Horan has been banned from performing priestly duties for the past decade, and interrupted the British Grand Prix in July 2003. He has also tried to interrupt Wimbledon, cricket, and rugby matches, says the Associated Press.

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August (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48