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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (3105)	3/16/2002 9:17:33 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

May I point out that Sex ... came from at best a middle class and probably a lower middle class background? OK, I'm hooked. So in your country, as Sex is clearly ruled out, what do the upper classes use to reproduce? Budding? Equine surrogates? Expensive plastic utensils? (ah, yes, this would explain GWP... he takes after the petroleum byproduct side, not the Republican, which is why he's relatively so advanced).

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (3105)	3/17/2002 7:57:27 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

you may be upset at the outcome of the last election, but that doesn't mean American democracy is dead. As I've said many times, I'd have been upset at the outcome of the last election no matter who won. Do you really think that Bush would ever have been elected Governor, or even have been a candidate for Governor, if his father had not been President? Do you really think that Gore would ever have been a candidate, for anything, if his father had not been politically prominent? I wouldn't say American democracy is dead, but I would say that the consistently low quality of the available candidates for leadership is a serious problem. When the only available options for the position of leader of the free world are a couple of talking-head puppets for competing ideologies that would not even be in public life if not for their father's positions, I would say that there is an indication that something is not quite right. We've all gotten accustomed (perhaps too accustomed) to that "is this the best we can do?" feeling. This last time around it was stronger than ever, and that is a bit unsettling.