<html> <body> Jim, Mencken...entirely too unread and forgotten these days.  He also wrote: "The Boobus Americanus is a bird which know no closed season". Or, to put it more directly, Americans will not understand fascism until they experience it; and, we have just taken another step down that road. If you enjoyed the last four years, you're going to love the next set.  If you did not, start planning _now_ for 2008.  Either way, buckle your seat belts; it's going to be an "E" ticket. Horace At 06:25 AM 11/3/2004, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>  " I despatetly want my choice for president to win, but when I am working for the county, I PUT MY OWN PREFERENCES ASIDE AND WORK FOR THE VOTING PEOPLE, not my own presidential preference, reguardless of who they vote for and I dont presonally agree with their choice!   What IS wrong with those people?????? " <hr> An encouraging point of view . .   I found the following comment this morning . .  it seems somewhat prophetic . . . <hr>   For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right. The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.  They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they ave only a talent for getting and holding office. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.                                 H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) I wonder if there is a history of election controversy, or if it is a recent phenomenon . . .?   ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Kinnear <a href="http://www.kinnearpiano.com">www.kinnearpiano.com</a> Collingwood, ON, Canada   The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress   -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher</blockquote></body> </html>