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To: Road Walker who wrote (368698)	1/27/2008 4:57:35 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573889

>It used to be different. It can be again. Going through history, it appears the times when it was different are the exception, not the rule. Hell, the candidates were calling each other the equivalent of "fags" pretty openly before the Civil War and the campaigning was nasty, nasty, nasty. Ever read some of the stuff between Jefferson and Adams? Shit, we had a duel between a VP and a Secretary of the Treasury. Congressmen beat each other up on the floor of the House. Elections and White Houses have been bought, we've gone to wars on false pretenses before... The American electoral system has always sucked. Can Obama fix it by virtue of his personal "awesomeness?" -Z