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

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (117032)	12/16/2000 8:18:38 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

the majority of people who went to the polls and voted on election day voted for AL Gore We don't know that. When Dem corruption is factored in, Bush probably won the popular vote by at least 500,000.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (117032)	12/16/2000 9:37:44 PM
From: bosquedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Let's be clear.......the majority of people who went to the polls and voted on election day voted for AL Gore. Let's be clear...the majority of the people that went to the polls and voted did not vote for Al Gore.

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (117032)	12/16/2000 11:28:43 PM
From: Annette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Then keep prayin', cause there still is a chance he could steal it... Americans... DUMB and DUMBER By William Cooper Veritas News Service - Exclusive -- Has everyone lost their minds? For the last several weeks the major topic of discussion was the Electoral College. Every radio broadcast, every television news program, and every news network has covered the Electoral College backward, foreward, upside down, and inside out. There is not a chance in hell that anyone escaped learning all about the Electoral College. I thought by now that everyone in the nation would be well versed on the subject; but I'm here to tell you that nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody was listening. On every radio frequency, every television channel, and every news network those mindless proponents of sociallusion are telling us that there was a Presidential election, and that we have a winner, President Elect George W. Bush. What an absolute crock of rotting stinking bullcrap... dumb and dumber. Nobody has learned a damn thing over the last few weeks... nobody at all. It's the Electoral College STUPID! Where has everybody been since November 7th? There has not been a Presidential election in the United States of America this year, and there won't be one until December 18th when the Electoral College meets to elect a President and Vice President, and furthermore there will NOT be, and CANNOT be, a President Elect until the certified and sealed ballots of the Electors are opened and counted by the President of the Senate, Vice President Al Gore, on January 6, 2001. What has happened here? Did some cosmic janitor appear in the middle of the night and suck the brains out of the nation? Didn't anyone at all even get a clue? In this country the People NEVER vote for President or Vice President; they vote for Electors no matter who's names appear on their ballots. How did we ever get through the last several weeks without anyone catching on? Didn't anyone hear that powerful democrats have been leaning on supposedly committed republican Electors in just about every State where the Electors are supposed to be pledged to vote for Bush? Didn't anyone hear that twice in the history of this nation the Electoral College took it upon themselves to elect a President that was not supposed to have won the election? TWICE it has happened! The Constitution for the United States of America determines the method of Presidential elections, not the States. The State's Legislatures are given the power to determine ONLY the method by which that States Electors are chosen... not to dictate their vote. Some States nevertheless have incorporated Elector voting mandates into their Constitutions or their laws, and non of these mandates have ever been challenged on US Constitutional grounds. Other States have no mandates whatsoever and Florida is one of those States. The Founders made it clear the reason for the Electoral College in their writings, and in particular in the Federalist Papers. They wanted a protection against the mob... the "ignorant masses" as Marx would have put it. The Founders clearly understood the dangers of "democracy". They intended that Electors be Statesmen and that they vote their conscience in the best interest of their State and of the nation. Most Americans either never learned these things or they have forgotten them. Has anyone considered the possibility that even though it is not supposed to happen, the unthinkable actually could, and might happen? You see... those same very powerful democrats have not given up trying to create faithless Electors. And who among us knows what is being promised... or who has been tempted? Why are we setting ourselves up for utter and complete chaos if the unthinkable is being thought and worked upon by some? Do you have even an inkling of what might, and most probably will happen, if on January 6th Al Gore opens the Electoral College vote and declares himself to be the winner? And are you even remotely aware that it actually could happen? It HAS happened TWICE in our history. We do NOT have a President Elect. And you need to start spreading that word far and wide and very loud. If the nation understands that simple fact we may be able to avoid what everyone has claimed could never happen in this country... soldiers and tanks in the streets; because I know absolutely without any doubt whatsoever that if the current sociallusion continues, and Al Gore is elected President by the Electoral College, the American People will literally come unglued. It could precipitate a Civil War. It is not supposed to happen. Nobody wants it to happen. But it could happen. No matter what limitations or restrictions individual States may try to foist upon their Electors the fact remains that Electors may, and can vote their conscience... and that was the intention of the Founders. It was not the intention of the Founders that Americans be duped into thinking that they elected a President and Vice President, that it has anything to do with, "the will of the People". I don't pretend to know what is going to happen... but I know what might happen... and the path upon which we have set ourselves is just about the absolute worst path that we could ever follow. So stop it... and stop it now. The election for President and Vice President has not yet occurred and Al Gore could still gain the White House. Believe it! It may not happen. I pray it does not happen... but it could happen... and if it does Americans had damn well better be prepared. Imagine a Greyhound Bus... packed full with People... traveling at 90 miles an hour down the highway... and all of a sudden... all of the wheels come off.... from: williamcooper.com