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"Michael McKelvy" wrote stuff...

I'm sorry - I seem to have missed the references to audio and equipment . .
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What was the point you were making?
Remembering that most of us in Europe have no interest in your inherently
corrupt election system . . .

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" "Michael McKelvy" wrote I think the primary
system is definitely corrupt. How else do you explain the quality of
candidate we see year in and year out?

There is an even bigger problem, the public. We have been canvassing voters
and one woman finally blurted out why she doesn't want to vote for John
Kerry. It was ...................wait for it
.................................................. ..................... he's
ugly.

Bush, by comparison, is good looking. Kerry's looks may doom him with a
public that has so many people who vote for US Presidents for the same sort
of shallow reasons they would use for choosing a high school class
president.

If we had had TV in 1860 we sure wouldn't have elected Abraham Lincoln,
whose craggy appearance is remarkably similar to Kerry's. Certainly the
voters who don't like Kerry's formal way of talking would disapprove of
Lincoln's pretentious speech . "Four score and seven......" indeed. What's
wrong with Plain of "Eighty seven" any way. Abe was even more of a a
pretentious windbag than John Kerry. Now we know why nobdy has any respect
for his memory.


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"Lionel" wrote in message
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May I remember you that apartheid is still not abolished in 50% of your
democratic country ?
Don't you have a negro to burn ?


have anything else intelligent to say?


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"Wylie Williams" wrote in message
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Abe was even more of a a
pretentious windbag than John Kerry. Now we know why nobdy has any respect
for his memory.


Well, that certainly explains the Gettysburgh Address




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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:09:18 -0500, "Wylie Williams"
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Certainly the
voters who don't like Kerry's formal way of talking would disapprove of
Lincoln's pretentious speech . "Four score and seven......" indeed. What's
wrong with Plain of "Eighty seven" any way. Abe was even more of a a
pretentious windbag than John Kerry. Now we know why nobdy has any respect
for his memory.


He was already president when he gave that speech.
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"Bruce J. Richman" wrote in message
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ScottW wrote:


"Michael McKelvy" wrote in message
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"New Geoff" m.gjb SPHERICAL wrote in message
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"Michael McKelvy" wrote stuff...

I'm sorry - I seem to have missed the references to audio and
equipment .


.
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What was the point you were making?
Remembering that most of us in Europe have no interest in your
inherently
corrupt election system . . .

Inherently corrupt? What bull****.


I think the primary system is definitely corrupt. How else do you
explain the quality of candidate we see year in and year out?

ScottW








In a strange sort of way, I think Nader has a valid criticism when he
describes
both the Republican and Democratic candidates as being controlled by
corporations who foot the bills.


Which is why we need to get rid of most of the "protection" that are
targeted at business. It turns the system into a bribe fest.

Sure, it's somewhat hyperboolic, but there's
more than a grain of truth in this.

Also, thanks to our antiquated "Electoral College: system and
winner-take-all
state voting systems, the US has the dubious distinction of being one of
the
few "democratic" countries in which candidates for President can lose the
popular, majority vote, but get elected anyhow.




It forces candidates to run towards the middle. They can't be to extreme or
they lose.

The number of times when the electoral college and the electorate didn't
agree is 3 IIRC. Hardly something to worry about.

I fear what would happen if the electoral college disappeared and the east
and west coasts were electing the president.


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