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"h" wrote in message
... Michael P. Reed wrote: Al, you lost the election. Get over it already. g But all didn't lose. It was stolen by the Supreme Court. Al won the popular vote, and in a real democracy, would be president, right? Good thing we aren't a real democracy. We're a Republic and no, the popular vote doesn't carry the win, the Electoral vote does...get over it. Mark |
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Gore would have won Florida had it not been for the monkey business by
Harris and the voter registration purge. Read Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money can Buy." "Mark Test" wrote in message ... "h" wrote in message ... Michael P. Reed wrote: Al, you lost the election. Get over it already. g But all didn't lose. It was stolen by the Supreme Court. Al won the popular vote, and in a real democracy, would be president, right? Good thing we aren't a real democracy. We're a Republic and no, the popular vote doesn't carry the win, the Electoral vote does...get over it. Mark |
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From: (ZZBunker)
Date: 12/17/2003 2:36 PM Central Standard Time Message-id: (Michael P. Reed) wrote in message . com... (h) wrote in message . .. But all [sic] didn't lose. It was stolen by the Supreme Court. Al won the popular vote, and in a real democracy, would be president, right? The Supreme Court was irrelevant, because Gore never had the votes (in any recount) to overcome Bush at any rate. There is no such thing as "the popular vote" as there is no federal election (only a Federally mandated election date). Good thing we aren't a real democracy. First, you will have to define "democracy." A "real democracy" (or pure democracy) cannot even be made to work in my hometown of 521 persons. What makes you think it would work in a disparate nation of fifty seperate states and 290,000,000+? We don't have to. Democracy has always been defined as an out-court-settlement of the US Republican Party vs The People on Earth with brains. So it's actually a quite trivial win-win situation when you have literate people vs Betchel morons. And it's even more trivial when you have Nuclear Reactors vs Alaska morons. Or as Nixon would say: There's commies everywhere Checkers, they got me surrounded. Call Charleton Heston quick, we need retarded Supreme Court Lawyers and Moses on the scene. If you can't argue intelligently don't do it at all. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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Wrong...The monkey business was duh Algore's and we voters of the
section of Florida who are divorced from the numbskulls who can't punch holes made sure of that. Harris merely counted what we did. Get used to it too. -- PcolaPhil Remove SPAMNOT. for email Pay Americans First; Repeal foreign aid!!! "miso" wrote in message om... | Gore would have won Florida had it not been for the monkey business by | Harris and the voter registration purge. Read Greg Palast's "The Best | Democracy Money can Buy." | | | "Mark Test" wrote in message ... | "h" wrote in message | ... | Michael P. Reed wrote: | | Al, you lost the election. Get over it already. | | g | | But all didn't lose. It was stolen by the Supreme Court. Al won the | popular vote, and in a real democracy, would be president, right? | | Good thing we aren't a real democracy. | | We're a Republic and no, the popular vote doesn't carry the win, | the Electoral vote does...get over it. | | Mark |
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On 17 Dec 2003 18:47:04 GMT, (B2431) wrote:
Gore would have won Florida had it not been for the monkey business by Harris and the voter registration purge. Read Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money can Buy." Get over it already. Miss Harris did as the law told her to. Would you prefer recount after recount until your boy won? Your boy blew it by only asking that three counties be counted instead of a statewide recount that even I would have supported. All but one of the recounts done since the election show Bush winning. The widest Bush win margin was using Gore's criteria. The issue here is not the recounts. It's the purging of the electoral roles, supposedly of people who couldn't vote because they'd been found guilty of felonies but actually of many people who had never even been arrested in their lives. Many of these people were poor and of African descent, both groups that tend to vote Democrat. While it's unlikely that Democrats, the poor, or people of color were targeted for purging, I think it's likely that their complaints may have created less urgency of correction than if they were in categories to whom the "Establishment" is more traditionally responsive. I certainly won't say the over-purging was deliberate, but it did indicate a lack of attention on the part of the State of Florida in the person of Ms Harris and her subordinates. Someone posted a URL for the Federal report about what happened earlier. I suggest (not cattily, really) that you read it. It's an interesting account of how things went wrong and caused an unfortunate event. People are right to be troubled about voters being stripped of their vote for no valid reason. Our votes are how we, the people, direct our republic and taking away that right threatens the stability of the republic. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
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![]() "Mary Shafer" wrote in message ... On 17 Dec 2003 18:47:04 GMT, (B2431) wrote: Gore would have won Florida had it not been for the monkey business by Harris and the voter registration purge. Read Greg Palast's "The Best Democracy Money can Buy." Get over it already. Miss Harris did as the law told her to. Would you prefer recount after recount until your boy won? Your boy blew it by only asking that three counties be counted instead of a statewide recount that even I would have supported. All but one of the recounts done since the election show Bush winning. The widest Bush win margin was using Gore's criteria. The issue here is not the recounts. It's the purging of the electoral roles, supposedly of people who couldn't vote because they'd been found guilty of felonies but actually of many people who had never even been arrested in their lives. Many of these people were poor and of African descent, both groups that tend to vote Democrat. While it's unlikely that Democrats, the poor, or people of color were targeted for purging, I think it's likely that their complaints may have created less urgency of correction than if they were in categories to whom the "Establishment" is more traditionally responsive. I certainly won't say the over-purging was deliberate, but it did indicate a lack of attention on the part of the State of Florida in the person of Ms Harris and her subordinates. Someone posted a URL for the Federal report about what happened earlier. I suggest (not cattily, really) that you read it. It's an interesting account of how things went wrong and caused an unfortunate event. People are right to be troubled about voters being stripped of their vote for no valid reason. Our votes are how we, the people, direct our republic and taking away that right threatens the stability of the republic. You mean kind of like Gore and the democrats ranting about the validity of the absentee ballots sent back from the overseas military personnel? Brooks Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
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