Regarding John Petroff’s Jan. 6 letter (“Presidency: Election issue hasn’t gone away with war”): Here we go again. The rules of the contest for being elected into the office of the president are again under attack.
One question comes to mind, “Why all the compulsive obsession with a man who could not even win his own state, Tennessee?” Had former Vice President Albert Gore and his team allowed the certification of the contest to have happened, he could have stood a chance at getting the electoral college of Florida. Instead, almost as soon as Florida was called and recalled, the wheels of litigation were set into motion in four counties and a “pick and choose” method of calculation was installed for his gain. It did not work. No matter how many recounts, the votes were not there. Is the goal of democracy to operate in such a lawless manner?
Had Mr Gore chosen to target more states instead of urban areas to dictate the will of the people of the United States, he might have became president. However in this contest, the Electoral College kept the balance of power for all people instead of the select few. Instead of the belligerence of pure democracy, we had the Constitution upheld and our republic is intact and the state of our union is stonger than ever!
We have the best of both political ideologies controlling this country. We do not need just one; we need both to give us the balance that makes us unique to the world. God bless America and God bless George W. Bush!
Marysville
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