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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (43370)	4/21/2004 5:57:50 PM
From: Michelino	Respond to of 89467

About that Washington quote I gave you scholarship - you gave me myths about Valley Forge. In fact I saw all of your links in the search engine before you posted, but had to reject them as lacking merit. My mistake was believing that you'd be interested in a reasonable conjecture as to the history of the quote. But if you find it as you quoted it in the context of the speech that he gave it we can revisit the tiresome topic. One caution: not every right wing blog urban legend is correct. And grade school paraphrases don't count. Washington ran opposed? Put down that power point slide! Looks like he didn't even run at all.... "Originally, each elector voted for two persons. The person receiving the greatest number of votes (provided that such a number was a majority of electors) would be President, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President. If no-one received a majority of votes, then the House of Representatives would choose between the five highest vote-getters, with each state getting one vote. In such a case, the person who received the highest number of votes but was not chosen President would become Vice President. If there was ever a tie for second, then the Senate would choose the Vice President. " en.wikipedia.org and then also see jimloy.com ,..each elector cast two votes, in those elections, one for Washington, and one for a second choice. Thus, Washington was elected unanimously. Also, Washington did not campaign for president." Sorry that I don't feel the need to keep to your attack agenda. Once someone like yourself wanders off on an inane tangent and the a cut and paste war begins, I usually try to respond with "more useful" source material. Consider it for the benefit of the thread if not for yourself. It's the quality of thought that is the telling distinction between the references we each quoted, not the quantity of blithering blogs. So you should really give FOX a try...You'll enjoy the meeting of "minds"! Maybe even meet another RWE who is pretending to be undecided. As for me, I really do have to stop feeding the trolls.