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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffon: [QB] "The supreme court should not have the power to pick our President for us." First things first, I need to offer a correction to this statement. The Supreme Court did not pick the president. They were asked to rule on a state's electoral process. They ruled the process was within the bounds of the law. That is their constitutional mandate through Marbury v. Madison. That legal ruling had a secondary consequence of President Bush being elected, but that is not the direct effect of the ruling. Had they voted to determine who the president was they would have been stepping outside the constitution. As it is, the side that lost the election as a consequence, even though they most often win in the court system, suddenly don't like the courts and want to change the highest Rule of Law in the land. Hey if you want to tear the Constitution up that might work. Do you have that much disdain for our second foundational document? The electoral college functioned as the constitution set out. Do I think we need an electoral college in this day and age? Yes, to protect the otherwise voice-less small states. They don't vote the way I think is right but they still deserve to have a voice in our "Representative" Democracy. We are a Republic Gordon. To become a full Democracy, which is possible given the technology that exists today, we would have to start over with the Constitution. In the case of the Supreme Court, I bet that is one of the few cases you didn't like their decision on isn't it? The court you trust and have benefitted from made a non-partisan decision. Now you can desire to vacate that decision, but because the process is spelled out in our Constitutional system and defined in a Judicial Review process, that decision will stand as the law of the Land. As to the conspiracy theory that Kerry got cheated as he got trounced trounced in '04, that argument is alot like when we were in Little League. There were those games when we lost and someone would invariably cry, "The umpires cost us that game." Now feel free to agree or disagree, but losing is part of politics. If you put your fate into a third-party's hands, you have already lost. In the case in point, Kerry lost when he was convinced he should win so to justify the loss he's blaming the electoral process. This is what happens when you have a weak party: we trust too much in the process to pull us through. Instead of working the issues we rely on anger to mobilize our base, hate to mobilize the general electorate and we count red and blue and battleground states. Hey it's a frustrating system that we put ourselves through every two and four years. Isn't it fun to watch? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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