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To: newgeezer

Nice to see you learned to debate from the Al Sharpton Ad Hominem Attack School. Were you a graduate or did you learn to dodge arguments by close observation and emulation?


50 posted on 11/15/2006 9:54:34 AM PST by youthgonewild
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To: youthgonewild
Were you a graduate or did you learn to dodge arguments by close observation and emulation?

Oh, my bad! I failed to realize "Any sensible person would want to eliminate the Electoral College" was intended to be an argument. It sounded to me like you were saying there's no sensible reason for having the Electoral College. If that's how you feel, no "sensible person" would waste his time arguing with you.

Now that I know it was an argument, I suppose I should respond in kind with something like, "Anyone who doesn't appreciate the reasons for having the Electoral College is either ignorant or stupid." (Of course, if I were to truly respond in kind, I would leave out the 'ignorant' option.)

Or, instead, I could just point out that "democracy" is something the Founding Fathers absolutely did not want for this nation.

But, since you likely knew that already and were stating your preference that they would have founded a democracy, I'll take a chance that maybe you'll find something new in the 20-page document, The Electoral College ^. It starts out by saying, "In order to appreciate the reasons for the Electoral College, it is essential to understand its historical context and the problem that the Founding Fathers were trying to solve."

Its closing paragraph says, "The fact that the Electoral College was originally designed to solve one set of problems but today serves to solve an entirely different set of problems is a tribute to the genius of the Founding Fathers and to the durability of the American federal system."

51 posted on 11/15/2006 2:08:48 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. You have the right to be wrong.)
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