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Re: The People Have Spoken
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Posted by gwb on November 03, 2004 at 11:34:58 from (65.202.158.66):
In Reply to: The People Have Spoken posted by Allan in NE on November 03, 2004 at 09:07:33:
>At long last a consensus of opinion has been
>handed down. The nation's people have spoken
>with a very loud, clear and resounding united
>voice. >Yes, it is true and now, we are once again in
>total agreement. How one can apply the words 'consensus' and 'united' and 'total agreement' to a 51%-48% popular vote squeaker of an election without seeming ridiculous even to oneself, I do not know. For a war-time President to be preferred be only a 3% margin says to me that it's about time that the dissenters who make up nearly half of Americans get a little bit more respect from status quo. Even Richard Nixon, as damaged as he was at the height of the dissent in the last year of the Viet-Nam era, garnered 60.6% of the popular vote, against McGovern's 37.5%! (To put it in perspective, the difference between Nixon and Humphrey in 1968 was under 1% of the PV.) But that, then is the pattern of this administration...no need to give any evidence or proof of their assertions. Just saying them apparently makes them true in Bush-world.
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