Massive Election Fraud
Well, the buzz today is all about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s piece in Rolling Stone ("Was the 2004 Election Stolen?"). Sometimes I feel like I'm just waiting for everyone to catch up to the obvious (see my "Massive Election Conspiracy Not Required"), but it is after all a rather delicate subject.
Why didn't the Democrats make more of a fuss? No doubt they can see from the ridiculous mess the Republicans have made of rational discourse and deliberative procedure that it's hard to put the genii back once he's let out. After six or so years of the Republicans' frivolous pursuit of impeachment against Clinton, one feels nearly certain the presidency from here on, at least for some time to come, will be marked by nonstop impeachment proceedings just as a matter of course, regardless of whether they're solidly indicated as with the current President — unless, of course, the President's party can hold on to a congressional majority by hook or, more likely, crook.
So, I imagine that the woeful Democratic leadership must feel that once one starts lawsuits or other proceedings over election fraud, doing so without cause will just become yet another in the Republican bag of dirty tricks as they attempt to assure permanent majority.
The facts in the Kennedy piece have been known for some time. However, now they are all assembled here in one place, telling one coherent story, with a voice that at least has the name-recognition if not the moral authority to help the message penetrate. Penetrate it must, too, because it's clear that the election process, which clearly should not be in the hands of the politicians with their own craven interests to look out for (maybe we'll discuss independent boards for drawing congressional districts later), should be controlled by the people doing the electing.
How shameful is it to confess that our worst president ever was installed in office twice without having actually been chosen by election either time?
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on Saturday, 3 June 2006 at 00.32
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Publicly financed elections, sans electronic voting machines as we now know them, are essential. Without this reform, American Democracy as we knew it prior to 2000, is very likely to go the way of the nickel Coca Cola and public-policy concept of "the common good."