First, lest you get the wrong idea, I am FAR from a Bush worshipper. I don't like him; I didn't vote for him; I won't vote for him.

Okay, that's out of the way.

I from time to time hear (or see) people say "he's not MY president", as above.

The fact is that he is the president of the United States, for good or ill. He is the president we have, whether you--or I--voted for him or not. You can complain about the electoral college system all you want, or complain about the Supreme Court in essence picking him as the "winner" in Florida, and thus of the election, but he is the president of the United States, with all the power for good or ill that entails.

Nothing in what I say above requires or even suggests that you like or respect him. The fact is that he is the one in that seat of power, having gotten there by forms and procedures set up under the laws and the constitution of the United States.

So I'm sorry, he is "your president". Let's just see that he's not in that office come January 2005.

Dave Oesterreich