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Originally posted by Mike AI@Jul 29 2004, 11:48 AM
I agree with you PD.
What I find sad, and I think Vick always brings up this point - is that our political system is very flawed. We certainly do not have the options of pick the best men for the jobs. We need a better way to find our presidential candidates - we need a headhunter and reqcruit top talent, then we can have an election.
There has not been a Presidential Candidate I would have been happy to vote for since Reagan and I could not even do that since I was too young.
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Of course our political system is flawed ... it's created by men.
I don't buy into the doom and gloom bullshit, however. I guess I'm just not hip enough to have utter contempt for the system that has developed the greatest nation on earth.
I happen to agree with Churchill - it's the worst form of government except all others.
With the possible exception of Washington, even the heros of the past were men who pissed the same way you and I do.
Lincoln's very election split the Union. He was hated by the Democrats in the North, and despised by the radical Republicans.
Teddy Roosevelt was an unelected President who couldn't even get his party's nomination on his own.
Franklin Roosevelt was reviled as a warmonger, a Jew, a Communist; Harry Truman was a Communist and a nigger-lover; JFK was a spoiled brat rich Papist.
I've heard all this "there-is-no-differnce" bullshit all my life. I've heard this "they all ain't no good" going back as far as my grandfather.
What's the fucking alternative?