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April 27, 2000 | Peggy Noonan kicked it off in the Wall
Street Journal on Monday, with her
complaint that the godless President
Clinton ignored the symbolism of the
dolphins who allegedly accompanied Elián
while he waited for rescue. "Mr. Reagan
would not have
dismissed the story of the dolphins as
Christian kitsch, but seen it as
possible evidence of the reasonable
assumption that
God's creatures had been commanded to
protect one of God's children." No one has quite matched Noonan, but
Salon is committed to a daily report on
the day's best Elián sound bite. Today's
comes from Maureen Dowd in the New York
Times -- as hilarious as Noonan, albeit
intentionally. Dowd's spoof of the post-Elián
Republican platform included a "family
values" plank that held, "The best care
for some
children, especially in the early years,
can come from a loony
cousin-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown. Government must sometimes
separate a child and parent, if that
parent is hindering
electoral votes."
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