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To: i-node who wrote (152792)	10/2/2002 7:38:38 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586549

David, politics by polls, as usual. If the Democrats originally supported a corrupt loser like the Torch, why should voters trust them to pick someone better? It's like in Hawaii, where the Democrats are urging voters to vote for a dead candidate. In this case, like in NJ, the Democrats will pick a puppet who does nothing but vote the party line. There is no room for independent thought, and the Democrats don't want any. Partisan politics like this is what's crippling America. And the idiot justices who allowed the NJ switcheroo are specifically endorsing this sort of partisanship: "It is in the public interest and the general interest of the election laws to preserve the two-party system and to submit to the electorate ballot bearing the names of candidates of both major political parties as well as of all qualifying parties and groups," the court ruled in a unanimous decision. I'm sorry, but that's bull. George Washington warned against party politics, but here we are now, doing exactly what he warned against. Tenchusatsu

To: i-node who wrote (152792)	10/2/2002 7:53:02 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586549

RE:"Amazing. Election theft. They have no shame." I guess laws are just made to be bent. lol. What parties are all the judges on the New Jersey supreme court? I suspect Lautenburg will win too. Such is the state of the state of New Jersey.

To: i-node who wrote (152792)	10/2/2002 7:55:03 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1586549

David, If it gets to the the US SC, and if it upholds NJ SC, it will create an interesting precedent. The parties can start switching candidates in and out until the election day, until they think they have a winner. Joe

To: i-node who wrote (152792)	10/2/2002 8:16:09 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586549

Now, I get the reason for the superior intellect push. Once the Rep. party was the party of the white Christians in this country....preferably Southern Baptists. Of course, that had to change, your numbers were dwindling and it was no longer politically correct. But how to maintain that aura of superiority. Well, of course........everyone knows whites are intellectually superior so you became the party of the superior brains. What a joke! Armey is definitely one of the intellectually superior. You can tell by the quotes in this article. And I love the factual data for his position.....he is not "impressed" with the intellect of the left. He doesn't need facts; impressions will do. Oh, and that superior intellect must include K. Harris, the 'genius' behind FLA's recent election history. And that explains why you all can see the benefits of war and we can't. It takes a superior mind to look beyond the maiming, killing and bombings of war; beyond the destruction to really see the glory that war provokes!! I think I would cry if I only had a brain! No question......you all are legends in your own minds. archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com ______________________________________________________ Nation & World: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 Democrats condemn Armey's remarks about Jews By Suzanne Gamboa The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democratic congressional leaders lashed out yesterday at House Majority Leader Dick Armey for comments he made that described Jewish Americans as split between those with "deeper intellect" or those with "shallow, superficial intellect." Texas Rep. Martin Frost, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, and Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., released a joint statement condemning the comments, which Armey, a Republican, made Friday during a campaign event in Florida. "We're certain we speak for people for every religious and ethnic background in condemning the disparaging comments made by Dick Armey about the millions of Jews and other Americans who happen to disagree with his right-wing ideology," Frost and Lowey, chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a joint statement. Both are Jewish. Armey's comments were "absolutely breathtaking in their ignorance" and a "reminder why the GOP's countless 'outreach' efforts to minority communities always fail," they said. During a round-table discussion for Katherine Harris, Florida's former secretary of state who is now running for Congress, Armey was asked by a member of the mostly Jewish audience why American Jews are so divided between liberals and conservatives, according to the Bradenton Herald. "I always see two Jewish communities in America," Armey was quoted as saying: "One of deep intellect and one of shallow, superficial intellect." He said conservatives have a deeper intellect and "occupations of the brain," such as engineering, science and economics. He said liberals work in "occupations of the heart," which he said were those in the arts. Armey, whose political views are strongly pro-Israel, defended his comments yesterday in a Washington news conference, saying they apply to all liberals. "Liberals are in my estimation just not bright people. They don't think deeply; they don't comprehend; they don't understand. ... They have a narrow educational base, as opposed to the hard scientists," Armey said. Armey said no one in the room was offended, adding that the criticism was prompted by Democrats' loss of Jewish voters to the Republican Party. "If you were a Southern, Anglo, Baptist liberal, I promise you, I would say you are not well-educated and probably not a great deep thinker, because that's what liberals are," Armey said. "I have not been impressed with the intellect of the left since I was a freshman in college." Art Teitelbaum, the Southern area director for the Anti-Defamation League, said the comments did not reflect anti-Semitism. But, he said, "There's no question that some in the Jewish community will be angered and hurt by these comments." Copyright © 2002 The Seattle Times Company