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To: LindyBill who wrote (12958)10/19/2003 5:42:42 AM
From: D. Long  Respond to of 794488
 
"Bush lost in the vote of the people, and his legitimacy is hard to accept," he says. "Having lost the popular vote, he took no account of the special circumstances of his election and governed as if there was a popular mandate for the whole program of the hard right."

I really wish the media would cut the whole "mandate" crap. We have a winner-take-all system. That means you win the office, and you either manage to push through your political agenda, or you get defeated. I've always cringed at the whole "mandate" idiocy, wherever it is applied. You want a mandate? Go live under a parliamentary system.

Derek



To: LindyBill who wrote (12958)10/19/2003 12:59:58 PM
From: KLP  Respond to of 794488
 
Kurtz writes about what we've seen here on SI in various places. Thank goodness people on this and on FL's thread have higher personal standards than does some of the media...even the so-called responsible media.

BTW, I see that Chait is 31 years old, so born about 1972. Yep, that's a lot of worldly experience, alright.


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