Re: Font Fondlers - The US Presidental Election Is in Your Hands!

[Joe <jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com>]

Hi David,

Sadly, you chose a public forum to air non-tech writer content. I 
responded to your first message privately, not noticing that you had 
sent the note to the list as well as to me. Bad form. My original note 
was to balance the anti-Kerry comment with a mild balancing note, and 
to try to get the conversation back on track...something this group 
apparently has problems with.

At any rate, your comments about the election are simply false. They 
parrot right-wing lies. Instead, know that the University of Chicago's 
National Opinion Research Center (NORC) conducted a study which 
concluded that in at least four different recount scenarios, Gore 
emerged the winner of the disputed election. The NORC study was 
sponsored by news organizations including the Associated Press, The New 
York Times, CNN, Washington Post, Co., Tribune Publishing (which owns 
the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, and South Florida Sun-Sentinel), 
and The Wall Street Journal itself. According to a November 12, 2001, 
Washington Post article on NORC's findings, "[I]f Gore had found a way 
to trigger a statewide recount of all disputed ballots, or if the 
courts had required it, the result likely would have been different. An 
examination of uncounted ballots throughout Florida found enough where 
voter intent was clear to give Gore the narrowest of margins."

The false claim that Barnes' statement that he helped Bush (ok--how's 
that?) get into the Air Guard conradicts earlier statements is also 
simply not true. In 1999, Barnes said the same thing that he did this 
month: that he helped the young, wild, partying Bush get into a cush 
unit ahead of many others who were on the waiting list. As for using 
Molly Ivins' sardonic cognomen for the  annointed president, does 
anyone remember the moniker "Slick Willie"? How "respectful" was that?

Sorry, Eric, but I didn't think it fair for David to toss his mistruths 
and parrotted inuendo without response. I will however make this my 
last comment on the subject.

I will quote Eliza Gilkyson's fabulous song, "Hiway 9" and be gone:

Well, the white god said to the little man
we're gonna fulfill scripture in the holy land
between the Tigris and Euphrates, it's a lot like hell
go on and liberate my people and the o-i-l.

Got your big trucks rollin' down hiway 9
put on the armor, it's party time
gonna dance with the devil of our own design
get your big trucks rollin' down hiway 9.

So the little man gathered all his chicken-hawks in
and the neo-cons and his daddy's kin
With their own clear channel and a helluva spin
and a white man hidden in a black man's skin.

Big trucks rollin' down hiway 9
pulverize the public, it's payback time
who's tax dollar is it? your's and mine
keeps the big trucks rollin' down hiway 9.

Well we got caught sleepin at the sentry post
now we're standing toe to toe with what we feared the most
that old father and his son and the unheavenly host
We gotta do what we can and don't give up the ghost

Big trucks rollin' down hiway 9
food and water and an Internet line
run to the polls when it comes a time
cause the big trucks rollin' down hiway 9.


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