basskisser wrote:
"John Gaquin" wrote in message ...

"bb" wrote in message

Ok, Bush won the Presidency. But, he certainly didn't win a mandate
for his extremist policies.

A) I never heard anyone claim that W received a mandate in the election of
2000.

B) W received his mandate on the morning of September 11, 2001.

C) You may consider some or all of his policies "extremist", but that is
your personal opinion, not general fact.

There has been no attempt to consider the

desires of the majority of voters who didn't vote for the rascal.

D) It may have slipped your attention, but we do not live in a democracy,
wherein the voters are consulted on virtually all matters. We live in a
Constitutional Republic. We send elected persons to staff the government
and to make decisions according to their best judgment. If we don't like
their judgment, we vote them out the next time around. This business of
consulting focus groups, or directly polling constituents, prior to any
decision-making, is, in my view, an abdication of responsibility under the
Constitution.


I just love how, no matter WHAT a republican does, the fellow
republicans just CAN'T seem to say, "he messed up", or "he was wrong".
It's that same tow the line, blinders on, goose stepping crap that
leads you guys to call anyone who disagrees with Bush a "traitor", or
a "communist", and on and on. Funny how BushCo, whom you guys refer to
as a UNITER, has this country the most divided that it's ever been!

Gotta disagree with this last statement. The country was more divided
in the 1850s and 60s with the civil war, but this comes next (at least
so far)

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:21:04 -0500, Jim wrote:


Gotta disagree with this last statement. The country was more divided
in the 1850s and 60s with the civil war, but this comes next (at least
so far)

While I wouldn't call GWB a "uniter", this country has been through some
very divisive times. Recently, I would call the Vietnam era more divisive
than this.