[lbo-talk] Re: What's at stake?

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Wed Nov 19 00:32:43 PST 2003


JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:


>Think about it, say in September polls show that some
Democratic nominee is 8
>points ahead. You really think that election's
happening? I say another
>terrorist attack requires the country to either
suddenly pull behind
>its putative
>leader or, uh, postpone the election--security
concerns, ya know. It's only
>resistance that has and will expose these folks, not
quiescence, however it's
>being justified.

See, that's how bad things have gotten - an intelligent, sophisticated, and rational person like Jenny can suggest suspension of an election and it doesn't sound at all far-fetched. An old friend of Liza's, and now of mine, also intelligent, sophisticated, and rational, thinks there won't be an election in 2008. Scary, no?

Doug ****************************************************

I remember a similar rumour (back in the old days) about Nixon possibly cancelling the election of 1972.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1009/p15s02-bogn.htm

Regards, Mike B)

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