This is surely going down in the history books as "Clusterf^&#$ 2000"! Oh, by the way; you must be familiar with Algore's Campaign Director, Jim (i think) DALEY. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't his Daddy affectionately know around Chicago as "King" Daley, or something like that? Now there's a guy we can look up to as a role model for clean, fair, elections, no? How about the big Unions forcing employers to give Members Election day off (with pay, no doubt) so they could "volunteer" for the Party of choice; their choice, or the Union boss's choice? Which Party might THAT be, hmmmm??? Gee, our shop had to WORK Tuesday. Did yours? (You do "work", don't you?) And the "pack of smokes for your vote" trick with the derelicts of one city (where they actually got caught) was cute. Now which Party was it they were being "encouraged" to vote for? If the perps actually get prosecuted, tried and convicted of election fraud, that will be a good indication that it might have been GOP. But I don't think so. What I'm suggesting here, if you're still reading this, is that caution (is "discretion" still in the PC dictionary? I know that "Honor, "Truth" and "Responsibility" have long since been deleted) might be indicated here before we go pointing ALL of the accusitory fingers in the SAME direction, as our Komrades in the "news" and entertainment industry are so wont to do! Now I'm trying to be at least a little open-minded here, - which is admittedly a bit of a stretch for an old Yankee dissident redneck dittohead politically ATROCIOUS conservative Christian prolife NRA dinosaur (are we extinct yet?) ... but is it reasonable to ask fellow Americans, including those of alternative persuasion, to extend a reciprochal effort?
We had two "Americas" from 1861 to 1865, and I'm hearing some pundits claiming that it's shaking down to a similar polarization this week. As I stood on Little Round Top overlooking the hallowed ground of Gettysburg, I wondered; "How many gallons of blood were poured out on this place? How many gallons of tears flowed down in homes North and South as a consequence? Can we yet smell the acrid smoke from still-smouldering embers of resentment and hate wafting out from beneath that old pile of ashes remaining from the long-since Dead?". Do YOU want to go there again? Go to G-burg, or Anteitam, or Shiloh Hill, or Cold Harbor... and look for yourself; feel for yourself... THINK for YOURSELF! Walk among the silent white headstones in vast array, where fly the Battlejack and Stars & Stripes, sometimes side by side, and listen to the still, longago voices... then ask you heart. Do we really want to go stirring in that old pile of bones and ashes? I think not.