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To: MNJohnnie
This whole business is disgusting. Thousands of people are dead, no telling how many more are hurting or in the direst straits, and all our politicians can think of is how this is going to play out in the next elections.

A few years ago a conservative magazine (I forget which one) published an article entitled "Democracy: The God that Failed." The point was that with the old monarchies you had rulers who had a reason to think about the country, since they were going to leave it to their ancestors. In countries with elected governments the only thing that seems to matter is short term electoral benefit.

Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be better off without elections. (That's just my frustration speaking. Please don't take me too literally.)

13 posted on 09/04/2005 10:23:20 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (`Od Yehoshu`a Bin Nun chai!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
This whole business is disgusting

Amen it is a fight I would been more then willing to put off until afflicted are comforted and the dead are buried and mourned. We were not give that opportunity by a ban of truly evil people thus this fight now is on the nonsensical instead of what is really important, the recovery

24 posted on 09/04/2005 10:30:46 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If it is all Bush's fault, why will Gov Blanco still not let the Feds take over?)
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