Munro Williams
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Bush could not wallop Gore. The election is still too close to be called. Hillary has been elected to the Senate. Nader and the Greens took about 3% of the vote.
Gore's flat, controlled affect, and his carefully contrived, staged public persona indicates a man whose fundamental questions are always "Am I really me?" and "Who am I now?" When he's not regurgitating pre-digested text, he sounds delusional. He acts like a mental patient who has just been allowed to light his own cigarettes. Nevertheless, Bush may not have defeated him. Gore won the popular vote. Most Americans prefer Gore. Even if Bush has defeated Gore in Florida and takes the White House, can there be any doubt that most Americans have some mental health problems, that they prefer a border-line psychopath for president?
A brief glance of the Green platform reveals a plan for the totalitarian regimentation of all phases of life. No human activity will be outside the control of the State. Yet no mention was made of this in the mainstream media, and at worst, Nader and his supporters are seen as spoilers. Does this not indicate, at least, an indifference to totalitarianism by the cultural power elite, and the millions who would have voted Green, had they not found that the Green agenda could be better promoted through the Democratic Party?
Hillary will be a Senator. She will, in a few years' time, be poised for an assault on the White House, much as Bobby Kennedy was in '68. Lazio was unwilling or unable to demonstrate her essentially Socialist view of life. He was unable to best her on his own ground.
Let us presume the best, and imagine that Bush actually carries Florida. This still leaves our flank wide open: Hillary will be the standard bearer for the Democratic party in '04. Now, Hillary is notorious for her shrewdness and implacability. She will, in the best possible scenario, confront Bush for the presidency in four years from now.
But the contest between Bush and Gore is still so close as to be unpredictable. If Bush is unable to smash so obvious a lunatic as Gore, does anyone think he will actually be able to trounce Hillary, who is as beautiful and as deadly as a sea snake?
From my perspective, we may be in the Waterloo campaign: Napoleon was defeated at Quartre Bras, but Blucher was defeated at Ligny. The Allied flank was threatened, and Wellington had to retreat to Waterloo, where, as he called it, there was a "pounding match," a "near run thing" upon which the future of civilization wavered until twilight.
The real battle is yet to be fought. We are in real danger of losing. Gore may well be a feint, with the real trap waiting to be sprung by the Senator from New York.
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ALARM! ALARM! CIVILIZATION IS IN PERIL! THE BARBARIANS HAVE TAKEN THE GATES!
[This message has been edited by Munro Williams (edited November 08, 2000).]
Gore's flat, controlled affect, and his carefully contrived, staged public persona indicates a man whose fundamental questions are always "Am I really me?" and "Who am I now?" When he's not regurgitating pre-digested text, he sounds delusional. He acts like a mental patient who has just been allowed to light his own cigarettes. Nevertheless, Bush may not have defeated him. Gore won the popular vote. Most Americans prefer Gore. Even if Bush has defeated Gore in Florida and takes the White House, can there be any doubt that most Americans have some mental health problems, that they prefer a border-line psychopath for president?
A brief glance of the Green platform reveals a plan for the totalitarian regimentation of all phases of life. No human activity will be outside the control of the State. Yet no mention was made of this in the mainstream media, and at worst, Nader and his supporters are seen as spoilers. Does this not indicate, at least, an indifference to totalitarianism by the cultural power elite, and the millions who would have voted Green, had they not found that the Green agenda could be better promoted through the Democratic Party?
Hillary will be a Senator. She will, in a few years' time, be poised for an assault on the White House, much as Bobby Kennedy was in '68. Lazio was unwilling or unable to demonstrate her essentially Socialist view of life. He was unable to best her on his own ground.
Let us presume the best, and imagine that Bush actually carries Florida. This still leaves our flank wide open: Hillary will be the standard bearer for the Democratic party in '04. Now, Hillary is notorious for her shrewdness and implacability. She will, in the best possible scenario, confront Bush for the presidency in four years from now.
But the contest between Bush and Gore is still so close as to be unpredictable. If Bush is unable to smash so obvious a lunatic as Gore, does anyone think he will actually be able to trounce Hillary, who is as beautiful and as deadly as a sea snake?
From my perspective, we may be in the Waterloo campaign: Napoleon was defeated at Quartre Bras, but Blucher was defeated at Ligny. The Allied flank was threatened, and Wellington had to retreat to Waterloo, where, as he called it, there was a "pounding match," a "near run thing" upon which the future of civilization wavered until twilight.
The real battle is yet to be fought. We are in real danger of losing. Gore may well be a feint, with the real trap waiting to be sprung by the Senator from New York.
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ALARM! ALARM! CIVILIZATION IS IN PERIL! THE BARBARIANS HAVE TAKEN THE GATES!
[This message has been edited by Munro Williams (edited November 08, 2000).]