http://www.jerrymander.com
11-18-00
Al, you blew it today. All the lawyers in the world, all the
recounts, all the chads, don't mean a thing now-- because
you blew it today.
Over 24 hours have passed with the news all over the
airwaves of the selective refusal to count overseas
absentee military ballots in Florida. Over one third of the
votes of men and women who risk their lives overseas
for us have been rejected. They were rejected using
tactics written out and distributed by your campaign staff.
For ten days now you've been trying to 'mine' for votes
in Democrat counties, and there were suspicions that the
latest round of recounts might not be fair and objective.
We now know that incidents of apparent cheating are
supported by eyewitness affidavits. What we suspected,
we now know. What were suspicions, is now evidence.
For ten days you have been saying that this is all about
'fairness' and 'accuracy' and 'listening to the voice of the
people'. You've said it, and your mouthpieces have
repeated it again and again and again. Even if we didn't
believe you, it was simply passed off as 'partisan politics'
to have voiced questions about your motives. But now
we know.
We know that, in spite of the fact that you say you say
that you care about a fair vote, you've been silent for
more than 24 hours. We've known, and you've known,
that our active duty military personnel have been
capriciously and unconscionably denied their votes. Men
and women who stand as a human shield between
Americans and our enemies, more than one third of
them, denied their right to vote-- and your silence has
spoken volumes. Your 24 hours of silence has spoken
loudly about your qualifications to be Commander in
Chief. Your 24 hours of silence has spoken eloquently
about your values, your ethics, and your ability to serve
the American people as President. Your 24 hours of
silence resonate with the dark truth of your principles and
your priorities.
You could have come out of your house today and
spoken forcefully in support of the American servicemen
who have voted but haven't been counted. You could
have stood tall and insisted that every rejected military
vote be looked at again, and counted if possible. You
could even have come out and told a little fib, explaining
that you'd never even heard of the guy who wrote the
instructions for getting those ballots thrown out. You
could have hung him out to dry, making him a minor
martyr in your quest. Had you spoken at all today, even
those of us who truly distrust and dislike you might have
been able to grudgingly support you, should you have
finagled your way into the Presidency.
Instead Al, you blew it today, and now we know.
You didn't say a word.
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Professor Jerry Mander Political Ethicist Fighting
Ignorance, One Ignoramous at a Time
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-- Newsman (Newsman@Pravda.or.Izvestia?), November 19, 2000