Jeff states:

> 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...

Yes, but how did he wind up on the stand in the first place? 
Sex with an intern.  Which was a problem that, quite frankly,
didn't need to be in the national spotlight.

I was actually referring to the buildup to the impeachment
process, but I see I didn't quite make that clear.  Sorry about
that....

I didn't really have a problem with the impeachment thing,
though I knew that he wasn't gonna get axed... it was obvious
he'd committed perjury.  Hell, he admitted it.  

The thing that got me was why he was in the situation to begin
with.  I mean, is it really anybody's business who the prez is
fucking?  No.  It's the Prez and the First Lady's problem,
nobody elses.  Except for the fucked party, I guess.

> 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.

But see, that's what I'm on about.  How can we live in a
democracy when every vote is not counted, and each does not
count the same?  As a Kentuckian, it's quite clear that my vote
doesn't count as much as a person's in California or Florida,
simply because my State hasn't the population and electoral
count that others might.

Would Bush have pulled the popular vote if all votes had been
counted?  I can't say.  The pertinent votes were never counted.

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Colin Keefe
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