ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?

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From: Brian Watson <kerr at concentric.net>
Date: 9 Nov 2000 14:34:24 -0700
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Jms at B5 wrote:

> >On the other hand, we can always be led by the guy who invented the
> >Internet and lied about Bush's tax-cut plan and is for gun control and
> >married to the woman who invented the V-chip (for real this time) and
> >Parental Advisory labels. Yes. Bush is obviously the worst candidate
> >in this election.
>
> Get real...this is the worst you can do in opposition to Bush, who lied to the
> press about any prior arrests, changed his driver's license number to make it
> harder to track such arrests (and was arrested at least once or twice more for
> vandalism and rotten behavior), got his daddy to put him in the National Guard
> to avoid the draft and went AWOL for 90% of that, never bothering to show up
> for his tenure there, and may now be at the center of the biggest and most
> blatant attempt in decades to steal an election through fraud and intimidation?
>
> Yeah, much better choice.

So voting for the lesser of two evils is the way to go?  Is that what you are
saying?  I had expected better of you JMS, than to see you promote that one evil is
better than the other.  Funny, Sheridan chosing between two evils chose the third
option.  Perhaps convictions in fantasy are easier than reality.

Personally, I voted Libertarian, for freedom and liberty, rather than evil.

I guess I'm funny that way.




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 10 Nov 2000 08:01:21 -0700
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>So voting for the lesser of two evils is the way to go?  Is that what you are
>saying?  I had expected better of you JMS, than to see you promote that one
>evil is
>better than the other.  Funny, Sheridan chosing between two evils chose the
>third
>option.  Perhaps convictions in fantasy are easier than reality.
>
>Personally, I voted Libertarian, for freedom and liberty, rather than evil.
>
>I guess I'm funny that way.
>

Funny how you condemn someone for deciding to make a decision along the lines
of conscience.

Is Gore the best we've got?  No, I don't think so.  I think we have better.  I
wish they would have run.

They didn't.  

Bush, in my view, was substantially worse, and more dangerous.  

One of those two was going to the white house.  That was inevitable.  If there
was a real third party in this country that could've mounted a solid chance of
going for the white house, I probably would've given it serious thought.  If
the election weren't as close as this was was shaping up to be, I probably
would've voted for Nader.

But I felt my obligation was to try to ensure that the worse of the two did not
get into office.

That was the voice of my conscience.  Which you ridicule, while I do not
ridicule your choice.

I always kinda thought that following your conscience was the whole IDEA behind
B5.


 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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