colin wrote:
<<Okay so in answer to the fact the Katherine whatsername who can decide
on
whetehr or not
to accept certain ballots, is a Republican supporter and donater, we are
told that
the
other people in power are Democrat supporters. Doesn't this make the
whole
thing just
a pile of do do? How can one ever expect anything to be fair when the
law is
partisan?
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bw
colin>>
Colin... good observations and question. Law may or may not be partisan
when created, but it's definitely getting the ol' partisan spin down
there in Florida.
In this case, I think the Democrats are once again proving themselves to
be the True Masters of Spin (is that the name of a band?). Though many
on the list will disagree, it looks like they've got the Republicans so
far off balance now, they may not even recover by 2004.
The whole mess has devolved into, as you put it, "a pile of do do" and
at this point, I don't see any integrity in whatever decision comes
down.
I read an interesting editorial yesterday comparing the Florida Fiasco
with a phenomenon depicted in the film "Blowup". Here's a brief excerpt:
"With each passing hour, the election seems less and less a routine
exercise in
democracy and more and more like a wild script directed by Michelangelo
Antonioni. Antonioni's famous 1966 film Blowup follows the adventures of
a
fashion photographer in Swinging London who, while taking random
pictures in a park, may or may not have photographed a murder being
committed. During the course of the film, the photographer enlarges his
pictures in hopes of clarifying the details but finds instead that
everything just gets murkier. Antonioni's film invited audiences to
study ambiguous photographic images until they became random collections
of dots on a page, effectively devoid of any definitive meaning."
http://www.reason.com/0101/ed.ng.pres.html
