On Dec 2, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
JDG wrote:
I must have missed the part where the 2004 election wasn't fair.... or are
you buying into David Brin's Area-51 conspiracy theories as well?
I haven't offered an opinion about whether not the 2004 election was fair. I wrote that in a fair election, there are no "losers." I was hoping to imply that I stand behind these words only if the election was fair; otherwise, they are irrelevant.
What I see is a minority that is apparently unwilling to concede defeat in
the last election, and recognize that some policies of the majority will be
enacted - and that indeed they should be enacted, by virtue of having
participated in the winning coalition.
Are you saying that about half the nation's people are now obligated to act as though the other half won *ownership* of the nation?
In fact, what BushCo won was *responsibility* for leading the whole country: red, blue, and all the lovely shades of purple in between.
Dave
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