George wrote:

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Peter Larsen wrote:

subject header says it ...

Respectfully I disagre what we(in the geocentric USA view) need is a
president that actually gets elected

The last election was so close it went beyond the resolution of the
voting system. The system was not equipped to capture the information,
so the results were, in a sense, random garbage. This is just the
same sort of thing that would happen if you tried to capture a short
25 kHz sine wave with a 44.1 kHz sampler, or if you tried to measure
the width of a human hair with one of those wooden rulers many of us
used in grade school.

The point is, if Gore had been chosen to take office, it would hardly
have been totally legitimate either. Given the way the election went,
*neither* of them could have been described as "actually elected",
at least not 100%.

That is why I personally find this "Bush wasn't elected" stuff to be
really juvenile, just as I would find it really juvenile if Gore had
been elected and the conservatives said the same thing about him,
which they certainly would have. It's actually a little bit worse
than the "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for XYZ" stuff. But both of them
are really about congratulating yourself about how right and good
you and your party are and how you and your party are not to blame
for any of the nation's problems. People who do this kind of
cheerleading for their own group seem, to me at least, to be more
concerned about proving that they're right than they are about
doing anything constructive. It's a natural enough human tendancy,
but that doesn't mean it's anything I want to hear about.

Honestly, if you want someone else in office and you think that
would be more constructive, an election is coming up very shortly,
and you could try to convince people why one candidate would do
better than another. As it is, you seem to be just convincing me
that some liberals are kind of nutty and too inconsiderate to let
things drop when practically everyone in the newsgroup is asking
them to. (Don't worry -- I also believe that the same is true
about some conservatives.)

- Logan