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To: stockman_scott who wrote (188007)	6/2/2006 1:58:10 AM
From: zonkie	Respond to of 281500

What Ms Noonan is saying is that people are sick and tired of Bush and if the elected republicans don't denounce him the public is ready to abandon the party. It's something a lot of us have seen coming for a long time. The time may be coming soon when being in control of crooked voting machines will not be enough to fix an election.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (188007)	6/2/2006 10:01:34 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Any viable third-party candidate would be supported by the side that saw benefit, and swiftboated by the side that didn't. Americans just aren't smart enough to see through it, and the mechanisms of control are a finely tuned science now.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (188007)	6/2/2006 10:40:41 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Right-o. I would like to begin calling elected officials (of any kind, size and shape) OUR EMPLOYEES instead of OUR LEADERS...which is utter crappola and makes us elect the idiotic and well coiffed instead of the competent and practical. If Dubyette is OUR EMPLOYEE then the 60%+ who disapprove of his lousy job performance would be casting about for a NEW EMPLOYEE. It's the idiotic idea that he's 'the leader' that makes people act stupidly and kowtow to his insanity. If OUR EMPLOYEES perform badly, do things that harm us, fail to represent our desires and interests then we would fire them at the first available opportunity. If we think of them as OUR LEADERS OTOH, they get stuck up on the celebrity pedestal where they are seen to have more power than we, their employers, have. Would we ever let OUR EMPLOYEES spy on us? Would we ever let OUR EMPLOYEES lie to us? We have to change our vocabulary.