Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:00:47 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: legitimacy of core (Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205195726.00e5b5a0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200302052108.25303.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205174625.029e7ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030205161539.028acab0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030205174625.029e7ee0@localhost>
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At 07:08 PM 2/5/2003, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >Now, that you've conceded, that the popular vote was not supposed to >affect the choice of president, you should apologise for your attempt >to mislead your audience into thinking, it was :-) I was not being misleading. I consider the Electoral College to be a bug, not a feature. As you may recall, it was created due to elitism on the part of the Founding Fathers; they believed that there had to be a layer of protection against the "rabble" making a poor decision. 200 years later, experience worldwide has shown that direct suffrage works best. >= Nor should the president be chosen by the Supreme Court. > >Better that than a lot of other possibilities. (Ivory Coast? >Venezuella?) Or the current means of choosing -core (he says, trying to get the conversation back on topic). --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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