-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Just Who Are 'The People', Anyway? By Jack Kinsella - Senior Editor November 15, 2000 It is a scene all too familiar - lawyers on every newscast; spittle spewing partisans screaming at one another; spin, spin, spin. Spin doctors, mostly on the Democrat's side, seemingly oblivious to reality, confidently proclaim victory where no victory exists. The media is struggling to appear even-handed while trying its best to put the Democrats in a favorable light, even when doing so means defending the indefensible. Breathless commentators searching out some way to make it all the fault of the Republicans, forced to try and make self-defense seem aggressive, find themselves saying things so stupid that they look embarrassed even as they speak. Liars making lies palatable, skewing reality to fit some prearranged verdict, claiming the high moral ground while taking the lowest road possible. Is this the Clinton impeachment? No, well, yes, in a manner of speaking. Instead, its Election 2000, Clinton-Gore style. Name-calling is the order of the day. Joe Lockhart told CNN that "if the 'true' will of the people were allowed to be expressed" - obviously suggesting that George W. Bush is a traitor who wants to subvert the process - then Al Gore would win the presidency. In other words, the true will of the people is what the Democrats want. When the Democrats attempted to skew the vote by demanding a manual recount in only predominantly Democratic Florida precincts, that was representative of the 'true will' of the people. Apparently, Republicans aren't really people. When the Republicans took the patent unfairness of the process before the federal judicial bench, the Democrats jumped on them, claiming they were trying to take the process out of the hands of the local authorities. Instead, they argued, let the [predominately Democratic] precinct officials 'do their job' they argued. Warren Christopher took great delight in repeating, over and over, that it was the GOP who first took it to federal court. In so doing, he conveniently ignored eight previously filed Democratic lawsuits filed at the state level. Of course, the argument was as specious as punching someone in the nose, and then defending the action in court by attacking the victim for bringing the suit in the first place. When the local authorities ruled in a manner not favorable to them [an event so infrequent that they were completely blind-sided], suddenly the local authorities weren't local authorities anymore - instead they were Republican partisans. Florida's Secretary of State is a Republican. Virtually every elected official in America is either a Republican or a Democrat, so it is an issue without merit. So it is with Florida's Secretary of State, who ruled in favor of state law. An evil, partisan woman, they hiss. Then they point to the Florida Attorney General, who opined in their favor. A great man of the people, they crowed. Evidence that they were right all along! The fact he is a Democrat was as immaterial to his siding with them as the fact the AG's Republican affiliation was material to siding against them. Now the local authorities are no longer trustworthy, unless the are Democrats, of course, so lawsuits are the only rational alternative. Nobody, from the Democrat's perspective, does anything according to what is right and lawful, unless it favors them. Then it is honorable and good. Siding against them is partisan politics, period. As the election debacle continues, it seems nothing is too pathetic to claim if it helps Al Gore overturn the results of one election and two full recounts so he can claim the White House, rightfully his as the 'will of the people'. Any vote that fails to favor him is evidently the will of the Russians. In the manual recount, when simply recounting ballots that were partially punched didn't deliver votes, Democrats began to argue that even an indentation should be counted. Previously, when the Dems were more confident that the 90% Democratic precincts were likely to deliver more votes for Gore, they were content to count the more obvious partially punched ballots. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Soon, they were openly speaking of 'divining' the will of the people. They stopped short of enlisting Dionne Warwick's Psychic Network, but were more than happy to invite Jesse Jackson to step in to demand the racially disenfranchised who somehow became part of the confused elderly who were unable to read the infamous butterfly ballots that only South Florida voters saw as confusing. The Republicans have remained largely silent throughout the entire mess. Bush has made a few comments to the effect that if he is indeed the President-elect, then he needs to be about the business of transition. James Baker has made infrequent appearances before the cameras, mostly asking in a bewildered tone, just how many times Bush has to win the recounts before Al Gore will concede? But the Democrats just go on, and on, claiming every possible advantage, smugly reminding the Republicans that the deadline for them to demand a recount of predominantly GOP strongholds expired and reminding the public they had their chance and blew it. Infuriatingly, nobody in the media seems to think there is anything wrong with the next president coming to office because he was the most proficient at infighting and using the law to his own advantage. And that is why this entire spectacle has such a familiar ring. It sounds just like the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Clinton was a master at blaming others for his actions, and taking credit for the actions of others when it suited his purposes. Only Bill Clinton could have convinced America that it was the Republicans that were to blame for his deliberate lies that spawned Monicagate. His prot�g� Al Gore, is fighting with the same ferocity and total disconnection from reality that he learned from his boss. With the same abandon that eliminates any possibility of statesmanship, a total abrogation of any responsibility to the people, a 'me-first' attitude that still baffles many, but not too many, Americans. America should, by now, have had enough of this. It really wasn't that long ago that simply saying something over and over didn't make it true. Until the beginning of the Clinton era, there was at least some relationship between words and deeds. It wasn't that long ago that Americans admired somebody who took responsibility for himself, instead of shifting the blame to others. This kind of winner-take-all, duel to the death, the people-be-damned attitude is something relatively new to America, but it is growing as popular as WWF wrestling. Except that in wrestling, you know all the outrageous viciousness is really all an act, and that in the final analysis, it doesn't mean anything of substance. When the cameras are off, everybody steps out of character and returns to being ordinary, even nice fellows, who just have unusual jobs. If we are really, really lucky, even with all the attack dogs, the spin and the outright lies, Al Gore will go home to Tennessee and America can go back to watching the WWF when it wants to see blood and guts. The White House should be home to more dignified activity. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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