"Dan" wrote in message
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On Sat 21 Feb 2004 02:59:25p, "Courtney Mainord"
wrote in . com:

Those WMD are in various countries just waiting for an appropiate
strike time and are in missiles guided by the latest guidance technology
given to the Chinese by terrorist Clinton for a campaign contribution.

Y'know, the scary thing is that there are probably a lot of people out
there who actually believe that.

Dan

Ok, Dan, maybe you'd like to explain why the Clinton administration approved
the transfer of technology from Loral. I'm sure that it's just a
coincidence that the chairman and CEO of Loral, Bernard Schwarz, was the
largest personal donor to the DNC the year this transfer was made and to the
1996 Clinton campaign. And Charie Trie was just a nice Chinaman who just
liked to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to Clinton out of his love
for the US.

As long as we're off-topic, I was listening to my financial guy, Bob
Brinker, on the radio today. For those that don't know Bob, he is willing
to fire on Republicans or Democrats as he sees fit. Somehow, the topic of
the 2000 election came up and the caller ended up asking Bob if he would
rather have the Presidential election decided by the popular vote. Bob said
he would support that because people don't understand the Electoral College,
but they can understand one guy getting 500,000 more votes than someone
else. That got me thinking of something that I hadn't thought of before and
that I can't remember really being discussed. IMHO, the idea of even
talking about the popular vote is improper. Both sides are aware of the
rules, and the rule is the guy who gets the most electoral votes wins. It's
possible that both Bush and Gore might have run entirely different campaigns
if the goal was to garner the most popular votes. It's like two basketball
teams playing where one team makes 40 2-point shots and the other makes 30
3-point shots (amazingly, no fouls were called during the game). By the
rules, the second team won the game. The first team doesn't get to say "but
we made more baskets, therefore we should have won". If the goal was to
make the most baskets, the second team might have changed their strategy.

todd