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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bilow who wrote (7557)	11/10/2000 8:56:09 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 30051

Come on, Carl, that is what is right about our system. The 1960 (Nixon/Kennedy) election was not decided until mid December and involved recounts and judicial trials. That election brought to the fore both the Cook County "voting machine" (Dems corruption) and the Illinois "down state" machine (Reps corruption). These contests are healthy, they slowly, but surely clean the system. I'll bet you that the current storm will result in better voting in the future. Nixon gave up not for "honor" or patriotism (that is a rewriting of history Nixon engaged in in his "memoires"), he conceded only when it was clear to him that all avenues of contesting the results will not change the outcome. And frankly, that is exactly what he was supposed to do. It did help in cleaning up (hopefully completely, but I doubt that ) both of the Illinois voting machines. There is really no rush, the electoral college is not convening until late in December and by then, hopefully, everything will be settled. Frankly, I do not remember an election for the Presidency being decided by less than 1000 votes, we'd better make doubly sure that the choice of the people is the one in the White House for the next four years. I understand that there are few other states (where Gore got the electoral votes) where recounts may be called for as well, and maybe even legal challenges to local irregularities. Let these proceeding go ahead as required or allowed by law. The election of a President is important enough to go through the trouble of clarifying the "Will of the People". This democracy will only be strengthened by that. I am sure that your Chinese surgeon friend had even harsher words about the spectacle of the impeachment process last year. Gee, even democratic Europe thought we were taking "Democracy" and "The rule of Law" a little too far. That did not stop us from engaging in the impeachment exercise. Zeev