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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (654579)	10/31/2004 11:03:20 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

MJ, Re: I have no problem with private corporation designing the best voting machines-----let's go for it and develope a system that works well 99% of the time. Well I have a vociferous objection to a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system. As you may or may not be aware, the Diebold Corporation, one of the major DRE manufacturers was recently de-certified in California because it bungled that state's primary elections earlier this year. "Now the state attorney-general Bill Lockyer is suing Diebold for false claims about its products after California’s secretary of state Kevin Shelley decertified the machines in April." [Source: newscientist.com ] Diebold is in seven lines of work, such as medical recording devices, automatic teller machines and voting machines (DREs). It should be a huge red flag for any observer to learn that the only line of business for which Diebold does not provide a paper backup audit trail is..... the voting machines. This quite simply is a "smoking gun" that should alarm anyone concerned about the integrity of our voting process.

To: MJ who wrote (654579)	10/31/2004 11:13:22 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

THE DEMISE OF REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY UNDER BUSH [NOTE: Here's an excellent description of how vastly the criminal enterprise called the Bush Administration has deviated from the Republican Party platform, back in the days when it was a decent point of view.] Message 20711931 by Webster Tarpley The Republican Party used to have an ideology. This ideology was based on limited government, isolationist foreign policy, favoritism for the white middle class, and fiscal responsibility. G. W. Bush has, by his actions while in office, destroyed every tenet of this ideology. Were the Republicans the party of fiscal responsibility? Bush, with a federal budget deficit of almost $500 billion (in reality much more) has beaten his own father's record of $290 billion. Were the Republicans leery of nation-building, and anxious to accommodate isolationists? Bush has invaded two countries, sent troops to dozens more, and talks of a fantastic neocon plan to democratize the Middle east and the world, while demanded some $250 billion from the taxpayers to fund it. Were the Republicans the party of limited government? Bush's prescription drug plan does little for senior citizens, but does provide hundreds of billions of dollars to the pharmaceutical cartel. Did the Republicans pose as the defenders of the native white middle class? In service to financiers and sweat-shop owners, Bush is now ready to bring in multitudes of super-exploited Mexican and other guest workers on a revolving door program that will send them home when they are used up, all the while driving down domestic wages. Were the Republicans the party of the free market? No free market to import cheaper drugs from Canada, says Tommy Thompson, even though NAFTA is supposed to have removed those trade barriers. These examples could be multiplied, but the pattern is clear: not a single point of the GOP creed has survived the Bush tenure of the White House.