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

To: TideGlider who wrote (657659)	11/5/2004 3:33:01 AM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That was needed. Wind is up big time tonight here, so am up late---can't sleep due to this. Just read an article in The Washington Times talking about Virginia Voters being angered by observers from the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights which is an international organization that brought foreigners to monitor some of the precincts in Virginia. The Virginia voters were concerned that "such a presence undermines U.S.sovereignty". Maryland refused to let them monitor saying that they would be too busy with the elections for election officials to be concerned with the observers. Since 1998, the US has invited observers from this group to observe but not to interfere with the election process. Certainly, I took it as an educational procedure for those involved----to see how we run elections. Whether that was the reason for the observation is not clear. Certainly some people felt these observers did not belong. Keeping our sovereignty as a nation was certainly one of the issues in this campaign. Wind is ferocious---no tornadoes just high winds---house feeling it. mj