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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (42586)	10/4/2000 4:11:20 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

>>>Cheney's voting record has been discussed and explained on this thread. Besides, the average citizen doesn't get involved in all these piddling elections and considers this question an annoyance.<<< Quite the contrary, Brees. You wanna put Cheney's voting record of the past five years up as a role model for school aged children? No, I don't think you do. In fact, what you really wish is that he'd have voted at least a majority of the times. But missing 14 out of 16 elections (including March's Bush-McCain Texas primary), including two presidential primaries, two statewide elections and two statewide runoff elections is hardly a noteworthy example by which he should be asking citizens to vote for him. I don't know why you Republicans keep calling those elections insignificant. They weren't. Was the first time Cheney was elected to anything, local or state, significant? Of course it was. Face it, Cheney transitioned into the big-money oil bizz. He went for the money!!! And, since he was no longer a candidate for public office, voting in popular elections didn't matter much. The only votes he was interested in were those in Congress which benefitted Haliburton, the oil-drilling company to which he was CEO. He may not have thought ordinary citizens' votes counted much, but I bet you dollars to donuts he was banking on them congressional lobby votes for his business. I find it utterly amazing you Republicans would come up with excuses for Cheney on this issue. FACT: It's indefensible!!! How many of you out there are honestly going to say you're gonna use Dick Cheney as a role model for teaching your children about voting. Never mind the Monica thing in every American living room on the boob-tube--how ya gonna explain Cheney's voting record? Go ahead. I dare ya. Tell your children that voting is insignificant.