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Quote by: Nono Fine. The problem isn't with the Electoral College, which is a rubber stamp made obsolete by modern transport. The problem is the crony-ridden organization of elections at state level that makes it possible to steal them (especially when your own brother is governor of the state concerned God-help-us-all  ).
The ritual nya-nya-we-don't-care-what-the-world-thinks statement sounds hollow as usual. The point is that you can kiss the America-as-beacon-of-liberty myth goodbye.
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The "beacon of liberty" myth is nonsense. It was extinguished long before GWB.
And yes, we as Americans, shouldn't care what the rest of the world thinks. That and a few dollars will buy us a meal. We have far too many problems here at home to "worry" about what the rest of the world thinks of us. Way, way, too high school. This isn't a popularity contest.
You, and anyone else can spin all the dope you want about the recent elections, but no one ever claimed they were perfect except those who hate and criticize America. They need to have something to rile against. Fact is, the electoral processes are the best possible way to elect candidates to date. They have their flaws, of which I am no defender, yet show me a better system in any other country, and it too, will probably have its flaws as well.
So, since everyone participates in the same flawed elections, may the best crook win. The Kennedys were famous for "stealing" elections. The American political system is riddled with influence peddling and cronyism. From the Bush family to the Kennedy family, whose roots are in the crime ridden past of the whiskey smuggling during Prohibition by old man Joe. So quit lecturing the choir with a holier than thou attitude that GWB is unique in his politics. They're all fuckers. It is just a matter of who gets caught, Tom Delay for his fiscal antics, or Robert Byrd for his Ku Klux Klan membership. The Kennedy's for their manslaughter of innocent women, or Nixon and his Watergate shennigans. Where is the justice?
The recent Abramoff (sp) influence peddling scandal in Congress crosses both party lines, and implicates both parties. You really need to sell this GWB is solely responsible for it all somewhere else. Sorry, I don't buy it.