if you would have watched the news on the night of the election, you would have known that Fox News repotred Bush's "presidency" before the votes were done being counted
I hadn't really discovered, so to speak, Fow News at the time of the election so I was watching either MSNBC or CNN.
Also, how can you say that the electoral college disqualifies us as being a democracy when the creation of our government basically set the standards for what a democracy is? Considering that America was the first Democracy as we define a Democracy today (at least I think it has been the first; I watch the news, not the History Channel), how can you compare against another government (which, in my theory, is following the precedent set by our form of government) to determine whether or not it can be defined as a democracy. You can't.
One final point for this post. No matter what political discussion I get in, I am
almost always accused of "not looking from the point of view of the person I am debating with". When someone tells me that, I will tell you what I am sure they are actually implying. And it is this. You are implying that your argument is right, so your assuming that if I "looked at it from your point of view", then naturally, I would have to agree. And otherwise, if I don't agree, then I must not have looked at it from both sides.
I just hope that, like you said, the next election does not come down to being nobody that I really care for (or nobody with a chance of winning anyway) like last time. At last election, I knew I did not want Gore and Bush wasn't looking much better. But this is what I'm looking at as a Republican now. The democrats are all screwed up with and I hope that they choose the right candidate *cough*Lieberman*cough* and not the wrong one *cough*Dean*cough*. If Lieberman was chosen (as if that's going to happen) I wouldn't have a problem with either him or Bush being elected. But, if Dean is chosen (God forbid but more likely), I'm just going to pray that Bush thinks of a damn good way to convince people he is the right man for the job.... again.
Well, I hope I haven't dragged on too long. Talk to everyone later!