Re: ranma ML 1 hour matome okuri
to | ranma@ml.usagi.org
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from | RJeffD@aol.com
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subject | Re: ranma ML 1 hour matome okuri
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date | Thu, 9 Aug 2001 21:24:58 EDT
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In a message dated 8/9/01 7:13:40 PM Mountain Daylight Time, ami@ML.usagi.org
writes:
> Brad sez:
>
> > We did impeach him. We were unable to remove him from
> > office. The two
> > acts are linked, but the former does not guarantee the
> > latter. Diddling a
> > chubby intern with a cigar, although tawdry and demeaning to
> > the office, is
> > not treasonous or whatever other criteria would merit getting
> > rid of
> > him. Although I was ready to see him go by around '94 or so.
>
> You know, all this shit hit the fan back when I was in Japan,
> and the main sentiment I got from people of all bunches of
> nationalities (I lived in an international house) was "Who
> cares?" The Aussies in attendence kept saying "Don't you Yanks
> have better things to do?" You know what? They were right.
> If that wasn't a waste of taxpayer money, I don't know what
> is...
Remember it wasn't the sex that got him impeached, it was the fact that he
lied under oath, about something that so many felt was unimportant no less...
if he couldn't be expected to tell the truth about something so trivial, how
could we expect him to tell the truth about something important? Had he told
the truth in the first place, there would have been no impeachment...
> > I'm also ready to see the end of the new, Artificially
> > Intelligent
> > President- and me a staunch conservative to boot.
>
> Well, I'm a radical socialist (NOT communist), but I can say I
> voted for Gore. I'm damn well tired of Dubya, and so are most
> of my international friends (mostly Japanese and German).
>
> Frankly, both candidates sucked.
>
> But still, it rankles that Gore got the popular vote, and Bush
> the electoral. That makes me angry every time I think of it.
> How can we, the US, call ourselves a proper democracy? More
> like a capitalist pawn....
It may seem like that, but it was probably a lot closer than you think...
generally, if the polls close and the lead is so far out that even the
absentee votes wouldn't make a difference, from my understanding, they don't
bother with the counting process on those. I may be wrong on this, but if it
is that way due to the electoral college, then we really can't know just how
close or far that popular vote really is. The only reason I suggest it may
be closer in this case is because the greater percentage of absentee votes
come in GOP than any other party. If they were counted (I heard there were
about 1 million absentee votes in California which weren't because of that)
then that would be another story.
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