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Article #2289Re: Haven't we had enough
From: Alan Otteson
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 00:00
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Ernie Englehart wrote: > > THAT I agree with. We haven't had a President that the country could > be proud of since John F. Kennedy, and he was assassinated because he > tried to get us out of the Vietnam war. > > The men that would make the best Presidents do not want the job, or > maybe they want it but refuse to run. The media scrutinizes the > candidates so badly that it is devastating to their families and is > simply not worth it to them. The voters are left to choose between > candidates that they don't like and don't want. > > It's time to do away with the electoral college and elect the President > based on popular vote. Then the power to elect will be placed back into > the hands of the voters, who could write in the man that they REALLY want > to be their President. > Even though we may not be proud of the man occupying the office of President, at the very least he should exemplify the moral and ethical values of the voting populace. Has the moral and ethical fiber of the citizenry decayed this much in just a few short years? As recently as 1988 Gary Hart withdrew from the Presidential election because of a wild weekend in the Bahamas. Now Bill Clinton is being sued in Federal court after one of his escapades in a hotel room. In 1974 Nixon resigned the Presidency as a result of misuse of a single FBI file and the resulting cover-up. Who knows how many FBI files Clinton and Craig Livingstone have spirited away for whatever purpose. The election of 1996 is not a question of Bill Clinton's character-- we already know that. The character of us as a nation and as individual voters is the real question. If Bill Clinton is the answer then we all fail. -- Alan Otteson
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: f6e0e,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidf6e0e,public X-Google-Thread: fab07,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidfab07,public X-Google-Thread: 115d61,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid115d61,public X-Google-Thread: f7d58,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidf7d58,public X-Google-Thread: 1083f1,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid1083f1,public X-Google-Thread: 105e42,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid105e42,public X-Google-Thread: 100eae,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid100eae,public From: Alan Otteson <ottesona@agcs.com> Subject: Re: Haven't we had enough Date: 1996/10/30 Message-ID: <3277EEEB.17C4@agcs.com> X-Deja-AN: 193293279 references: <54eqfm$332@news.internetmci.com> <326c2602.75398733@news.edge.net> <32752b79.3566390@news.xroads.com> <54ltas$7ie@News.IDT.NET> <3276383C.31AE@shell.liberty.com> <3276BEE7.2A2A@conknet.com> <5580t5$2boa$1@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <3277CA41.3E74@agcs.com> <3277D62A.48BC@agcs.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: AG Communication Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: ak.general,alabama.general,aol.neighborhood.az.phoenix.general,aol.neighborhood.il.chicago.general,aol.neighborhood.in.indianapolis.general,aol.neighborhood.ny.general,aol.neighborhood.ny.new-york.general,atl.general,austin.general,az.general,ba.general,ca.general,co.cos.general,co.fort-collins.general,co.general,compuserve.general,dc.general,delaware.general,dfw.general,fl.general,houston.general,il.general,kc.general,ky.general,la.general,lex.general,md.general,memphis.general,miami.general,mn.general,nashville.general,nc.general,ne.general,neworleans.general,nh.general,niagara.general,nj.general,nm.general,nv.general,ny.general,nyc.general,oh.general,ok.general,ok.tulsa.general,or.general,pa.general x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m)