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To: Dayuhan who wrote (3292)	3/17/2002 9:52:38 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

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? Do you have any idea of how many people in important state and federal gov't positions that could be applied to? Would FDR have ever reached the WH if his family were poor instead of wealthy? Who knows, but there's a good chance he would have ended up picking oranges in California during the Depression. 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. What, you think this is new? 13 Millard Fillmore, 1850-53 (Whig) 14 Franklin Pierce, 1853-57 (Democrat) 15 James Buchanan, 1857-61 (Democrat) 29 Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23 (Republican) 30 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-29 (Republican) 31 Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-33 (Republican) If you look at this, I'd say were probably doing better that average: 39 James Earl Carter, 1977-81 (Democrat) 40 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-89 (Republican) 41 George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 (Republican) 42 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993- 2001(Democrat) 43 George Walker. Bush, 2000- (Republican) <i.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. I'd say you've forgotten all those other times you walked into the voting booth and had to hold your nose to pull the lever. How about 1972: Nixon vs. McGovern. Wasn't that a wonderful choice? I went third-party that time. Stench of Watergate was already rising and the other guy was impotent idiot.