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celticlord2112 -> RE: Republicans know how to win elections (3/20/2008 6:17:31 PM)
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This country is over.
No statement, pro-Clinton, pro-Obama, pro-McCain, pro-anything could possibly be as absolutely and categorically wrong as these few words.
This country has its issues, has its problems, has its deep and dangerous divisions, but its final chapters have yet to be written.
There is much good in this country, and the greatest good of all is that we are able to have intense and passioned political debates such as the ones here in these forums without people taking to the streets in violent rebellion. In countries such as China and Russia, those who speak against the regime are imprisoned and sometimes executed. In countries such as Pakistan leaders are assassinated in pursuit of political agendas. In countries such as Venezuela, leaders seek to game the system to perpetuate their personal power.
Whatever the faults and flaws of this year's crop of presidential candidates, whatever faults and flaws exist in this country's political processes, the above-mentioned flaws do not number among them. Even the controversies surrounding Florida in 2000 did not result in violence or insurrection--an outcome which would have been almost de rigeuer in other parts of the globe. Despite all manner of controversy, our political processes have endured intact for over 200 years, and, so long as people continue to care, will endure for 200 more and beyond.
No, this country is not over....not yet, and not by a damn sight.
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