🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Bx7GxD.A9C@apollo.hp.com> holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook) writes:

>Bill Clinton will be the next president of the United States.
>And as both George Bush and Ross Perot said, he deserves our
>backing now that the carnival is over.
>But he'd better have a pretty spectacular four years in office or the fickle
>electorate will remind him of that plurality position and toss him out on
>the same piece of tender anatomy they did Bush.

I hope, whether you love him or hate him, he'll have a spectacular
four years.  The country could sure use it.

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>Then those of us who understand some simple
>mathematics can have fun pointing out to them that the majority
>of the people indeed did NOT throw the bums out.

Actually, a clear majority DID throw the bum out.  They merely
disagreed about who should take his place.

>But, hey, at least we saw once again that the system does work...

Indeed, it did.  It sure worked differently this time than it does,
with Perot in the game and all, but it did work.





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