[Rhodes22-list] Bashing Bush is fun.

[Brad Haslett]

Robert,

You know better.  Everyone knew the rules.  If you don't like them, lobby to
get them changed.  I have mixed emotions about the Electoral College, but
that is the current game.  If the election were based on the popular vote,
candidates like Bush would spend more time in big states like California
mining for total votes (as opposed to electoral votes).

David,

What makes you think Herb is opposed to a woman President?  I'm certainly
not, I'd vote for Condi in a heartbeat.  There are a gazillion reasons not
to like Hillary.  Her gender is the least among them.

Brad

On 7/11/07, Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>
> Herb - that was MY point.  Review your exact words.
> I know it's a Texas tradition to shoot from the hip,
> but I expected more from you, even in the heat of a
> diatribe.
>
> Gore got more popular votes.  The electoral college
> is an artifact of our republican (small "S") framers'
> thinking, and allows politicians of all stripes to
> "game" the system.
>
> I didn't have a "civics" class.  I read the Federalist
> Papers in their uncut form during several years of
> American History classes.
>
> Now knock off the personal attacks.  They do not help
> your arguments -- they weaken them.
>
> /Robert
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Herb Parsons wrote:
> >
> > Another one who didn't pay attention in civics class. Gore didn't get
> more votes. It's the electoral college that counts.
> >
> > When you lost at little league games, I bet it was the ref's fault too,
> right?
> >
> > Herb Parsons
> >
> > S/V O'Jure
> >   1976 O'Day 25
> >   Lake Grapevine, N TX
> >
> > S/V Reve de Papa
> >   1971 Coronado 35
> >   Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast
> >
> > >>> Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> 7/11/2007 8:06 PM >>>
> > Herb Parsons wrote:
> > > Rummy,
> > > You didn't pay attention in civics class... you get to go to
> > > polls and vote. After all the votes are in, the man who gets
> > > the most votes becomes the President of the United States...
> >
> > So we have Gore as our president?
> >
> > Stalin said: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
> > Those who count the votes decide everything."
> >
> > In case you dispute the quote, see:
> >    http://www.votefraud.org/josef_stalin_vote_fraud_page.htm
> >
> > If you remember the vote, fear for our democracy...
> >
> > /Robert
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