On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard Menedetter wrote: I don't want to get deeply embroiled in this, so just a couple comments: > Europeans think that bush has a very small IQ. (it's common believe here .. > i don't want to say if it's true or not ... but that is what people > believe) He graduated from Yale with pretty good grades. His IQ is certainly above average. > But we don't blame america for this. > We simply don't understand why he has been elected. Maybe because Owl Gore promised that if given the chance, he would outlaw the internal combustion engine? Can you imagine such a thing? Owl is so far to the green that he would take us back to the 18th century. Personally, I voted libertarian. I didn't want either of the party politicians as my president. > But it is a matter of fact that it was a democratic election, so we have to > accept it. No. We do no elect the president democratically. As a matter of fact, the US is not a democracy, but a representative republic. Ideally, this means that natural law and libertarian principals are placed above the pendulum swings and whims of the electorate. In practice, it still means the politician who tells the most palatable lies ends up winning. - Steve
