Winkman OT Politics
With respect to your guess:
<<Hi kb. Wrt: <<and she was the marionette being prompted by the mysterious guy who gave her orders, live on world TV, to do this or that. "Pull my strings/And I'll dance for you/I'm your puppet." >>
Didn't see it, but from your description and my experience, it sounds like an attorney giving her advice. Most likely she was scared as hell, and leaning on her lawyer.>>
That might have been the case, I certainly don't know. The problem with these things is one can line up an entire host of "facts" and assemble a brief, which is not my purpose. I'd like to assume the best from everyone, but I'd also like to remain rational. Trust in God, but lock your doors. Trust your pal Artie, but he still has to cut the cards before he deals.
I don't believe the guy was her lawyer, actually, because he leaned over and whispered to her that she could "second" the Judge's motion to get some substantive input before the meeting was railroaded by Carol Roberts, and then, unsolicited, he came forward and told her to revoke her seconding. As an attorney I can tell you that his input was substantive, political, and not legal in nature. Of course he could have been a lawyer, but probably not hers.
Speaking of law, it was very interesting to have Carol Roberts giving ad hoc, running commentary legal advice on TV, reading off the Florida Annotated Statutes, a photocopy, that is, and advising the Commission. My gut feel is that she is not an attorney of any stripe, or she would have been much more measured in her words and less anecdotal in her dicta concerning other elections she's observed.
The farce continues.
Shall we start a pool on when Al Gore gets shamed into conceding? (Btw, he will only do it when he makes a determination that the potential collateral damage to his 2004 run, with Hillary (???!!?) in the wings is too great. If he has any brains he should have known that THAT point passed last week.) Friday the 17th looks like a good day to me--although JimP gets credit for proposing that date first in a PM to me--since that is the regular certification day for absentee ballots.
Other dates? The prize for getting the closest to the day without going past is, as per usual, $5 million in cybercash, payable through your CD-ROM drive from Yahoo. Joint winners will, of course, EACH receive the $5 million. Backstop Letter of Credit has already been supplied by the Democratic National Committee. Call William Daley for details, he's standing by.
Bons regards. Kb |
