From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 18:14:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2661D37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587E643FBF for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:14:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05892; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:14:19 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205190635.00bc79e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:14:18 -0700 To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen), chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Brett's "odd" take on the Florida election In-Reply-To: References: <3E41A909.1048F9C9@mindspring.com> <20030205171407.A15358@freebie.xs4all.nl> <4.3.2.7.2.20030205161539.028acab0@localhost> <3E41A909.1048F9C9@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert writes: >> The election was what it was. Any vote result is what it is. Thanks to the infamous "butterfly ballot," we'll never know what the result was. But it appears that, given a ballot that people filled out as they'd intended, the result would have been the election of Al Gore. Not that Gore is a saint, by any means. He has always come across as stiff and phony. But he was at least a benign choice. On the other hand, having Dubya in the White House has been catastrophic. He has plunged the United States into a double dip recession, bungled diplomacy in the Middle East, squandered the budget surplus, set the stage for wholesale destruction of the environment, lost the US millions of jobs, put foxes in every government henhouse, and is preparing to go to war with Iraq primarily to avenge a family grudge. Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >And besides, one of the guys has conceded -- twice. A shame, that. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message