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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (35277)	11/20/2000 8:21:24 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) of 50167

On all count this is not right comparison.. <<1. Imagine that we read of an election occuring anywhere in the developing world (for that matter in parts of Europe) in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (cia).>> First Bush has not declared himself President elect. He is ahead on two vote re-counts. Bush as ex-President and ex- CIA boss has conducted himself fine. In developed world with exception of Britian the rest of Europe cannot crow much about 'democracy' and human rights. It ws only 55 years back that someone known as 'Fuherer' ruled Germany.. it was just 30 years back that 'Franco' ruled Spain and it was just 55 years back that French had a callobrotionist government under 'Vichy'. Portugal's 'Salazar' is another example, and lot of extrmeme right wings views have a far much more deeper following in Europe than US. US democracy is far more deep rooted and equal. Close elections do have close scrutinies, other places would not have gone through a peaceful transition, if we fail in uS in htat, some compariosn can be made otehrwise on history and tradition lets not self fleglate too much. <<2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's pre-democracy past.>> This electoral college is a 'safety valve' against possible exploitation of the urban centres and vested interest agaisnt states like Montana. In these elections the candidate has to make the whole geographical effort to come out as a true representative. In all federations such safegaurds are provided. The argument that Bush won on 'won based on some old colonial holdover ' is lousy. It was framed by the founding fathers although King George three was responsible for it. All federations even Germany have their own houses, the federal issues need certain level of participation to avoid bulldozing we need these safety valves. Please also refer the writer to the paper that Gore made on virtues of 'electoral college' just beofore the elections. At that moment they were talking about Gore winning the 'college' and losing the popular vote. I can keep writing on every point that takes too much time, but in my opinion generalisation and trivialzation of issue without history and background of current affairs does give a distorted view..

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