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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (39610)	11/13/2000 10:20:11 PM
From: Alan Gallaspy	Respond to of 70976

OT-Election results Cary was saying I firmly believe that election night left a chess game with positions each side had to play and they are competing to win, only to win, everything else be damned. I also firmly believe that if the positions were reversed each side would act the way the other is acting. IMHO, this is about the most concise summation of the whole mess, and stated pretty impartially to boot. Cary takes a lot of BS from BK, Lone and Darryl just to point the finger at a few of the more egregious offenders that I have seen here lately. I guess most of us here are pretty well off and would like to pay less income tax and no cap gains and let our kids inherit every bit of it and have a cool anti ICBM system to keep the crazy Chinese from blowing it all up. Nonetheless, to paint Cary or any other Dem as a Dumbocrat, or as mindless tax and spend automatons, or environmental whackos that will ruin the economy for the sake of a few gigatons of greenhouse emissions is just too damn simplistic for me to stomach. The Democratic party of the last decade has a proven track record of centrist policies and fiscal discipline. Has all that been imposed by having Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott and pals balance the budget? Of course not, it was a joint effort by both, a near perfect example of checks and balances in action. We all know that both parties will do virtually anything to assume power and that both parties have more than their fair share of devisive a**holes and self serving pontificating blowholes. We are in nearly uncharted waters with this election, but no amount of ranting or name calling or Democrat bashing that appears on this board will change the outcome. We can either talk about it here or take it to a Coffee Shop thread, but let us all try to maintain some civility so we can have a functioning thread after this is all over. Neither a Democratic or Republican administration will mean the end of the USA, and some good will come out of this experience. We are mostly at peace with the world, the economy is doing pretty well, what better time for a constitutional crisis? So lets just sit back, enjoy the spectacle and feel free to rant and rave to your Congressman or Senator if things get too much to tolerate.