Carl, maybe you should consider writing, The Buying of the Presidency 2000. You've got the prose for it.
Tom
Carl Remick wrote:
> >From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >
> >I'd love to see a serious extended investigation of vote
> >fraud around the U.S., not to mention serious scrutiny of the
> >intentional anti-democratic structures of U.S. electoral practice
> >(from technical stuff like ballot access through the systemic stuff
> >like divided government and the Senate). I suspect that sometime in
> >the next few days, after Gore folds, all the critiques of our
> >pseduo-democracy will disappear, except maybe for some maligned
> >Greens and other assorted malcontents, the very people now derided as
> >spoilers.
> >
> >Doug
>
> Yes, the establishment wants to get the lid back on this Pandora's box
> pronto. I love the toe-tapping impatience of R. W. Apple's "News Analysis:
> Experts Contend a Quick Resolution Benefits Nation and Candidates" in
> today's NY Times. The lead: "Another week and no more. By next weekend, a
> group of scholars and senior politicians interviewed this weekend agreed,
> the presidential race of 2000 must be resolved, without recourse to the
> courts. With remarkable unanimity [lol!], they said that would be in the
> nation's best interests and, in the last analysis, those of the candidates,
> Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush of Texas."
>
> I feel a liberal consensus developing whose centripetal force could out suck
> the gravitational pull of a black hole. Believe me, in short order no light
> will be able to escape the all-consuming draw of the proclaimed urgent need
> to Put This All Behind Us.
>
> Carl
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