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To: Dale Baker who wrote (3531)	9/12/2003 9:57:54 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

I can't help but wonder how different the world would be now if only someone a bit more balanced and cultivated were in the White House... Any system that places a man like Bush at the head of a country like the US has a lot of room for improvement...

To: Dale Baker who wrote (3531)	9/12/2003 8:16:51 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20773

Dale, Re: Personally I'm glad we could solve the dilemma in the courts instead of in the streets or even worse, the barracks. Have you read your Constitution lately? There is a perfectly adequate solution to the quandary of a hung election there. Well, perfectly adequate may be a bit of a stretch. <g> But at any rate, the Supreme Court violated the rule of law with its decision. The only people who were "in the streets", or rather rioting in the County Clerks office in Broward County in early December were flown into the state on Enron's private jet and many of them have now gotten jobs in the Bush White House. What we were witnessing was the incipient stirrings of a fascist 'brown shirt' riot organized at the highest levels of the Republican hierarchy. It was the Republicans who were driving the sense of urgency about the recount. The Democrats, me among them, were perfectly content to let the recount take its course, and failing to resolve the issue before the seating of Congress, to have the final votes cast in the House of Representatives. The populace was not alarmed. The only people alarmed were the manipulators in the GHP who used the rush to judgement to their own partisan advantage, while completely flaunting the rule of law. Just look at the same utter disregard for the rules of democracy in the absurd impeachment proceedings against Clinton, the California recall election, the Texas redistricting fight and one gets the distinct impression that the Bushistas hate democracy and can't wait to end it by whatever cunning and devious means they can concoct.