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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (86749)	12/13/2000 3:13:47 AM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

<<now, everyone pray that bush does not follow up on his stupid campaign promises and that he doesn't get right wing justices appointed. >> O'Connor wants to retire. I think you'll see early on what Bush has in mind. And how the Senate reacts. Be careful what you wish for...-g-

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (86749)	12/13/2000 8:36:44 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, I think any supreme court appointments are going to have to be from the center. Wayne

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (86749)	12/13/2000 9:56:02 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, >>some will say the us supreme court was gutless to basically blame this mess on the ineptitude of the fl supreme court. i would too... if the fl supreme court didn't show themselves to be near retarded when it cam to issues of basic fairness and common sense.<< I think that is the core difference between the right and left. The left was concerned about the fairness issue in terms of getting a full count without any regard to the fairness and bias issues of the process that was under way. It's been my opinion from day one that those manual counts were idiotic even if the intent was a just one. The counts were cherry picked. The standards were different and changing. The standards themselves are subjective so they simply must be implemented BEFORE the election. There was no way to get a fair and unbiased count after the election. Wayne

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (86749)	12/13/2000 11:21:27 AM
From: LowtherAcademy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter, having absented myself from the political discussions here for the last month, I feel compelled to post a comment at the end of the whole sordid affair. I figure I'm pretty representative of a lot of boomers. I'm usually a bit ahead of the herd on trends and behind them on realized satisfaction. I have always considered the Supreme Court to represent an impartial final arbitration in matters of constitutional interpretation. The Court is the entity that keeps all the petty regionalist factions from subverting the high ideals our country was founded on. In my mind, the Supreme Court's decisions have been something that has never been for sale-- since the first Court heard the first case in the infancy of the greatest country that has ever existed in all of long history of humankind, it has stood aloof from petty and most importantly POLITICAL sway. I no longer feel that way. Today is the saddest day that I can remember. I think I'll remember it in much the same way I remember the day that JFK was assassinated. What I was doing, the smell in the air, what people around me were doing--all of this is frozen in my mind's eye as if they just happened. This will be a watershed event that will be remembered in much the same way. As a society we've chosen the cheap and easy route in so many things, I guess it should come as no surprise that we have no institutions that are exempt from political selfservishness. It all just came as a big shock. Lew