Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: All This Political Bickering...
From: oberland@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:09:29 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University

I have several questions to post to the people who seem to find every single
candidate as being unworthy:

1:Given that REALITY exists, said reality forces one to the following
conclusion(s):
	Q:how many candidates are there that stand a REAL chance of running
against or beating BUSH, since he WILL be the Republican candidate that will be
running?
	A:FIVE.  They currently are:

1.Buchanan(sp?)(MAY decide to run outside party if Bush gets party nomination)
2:Clinton
3:Tsongas(If he decides to Re-enter the primaries)
4:Brown(May(MAY)run outside party also-nomination unlikely)
5:Perot(If he runs)

	Q:How many stand a chance of lasting/beating Bush?
        A:Three,theoreticaly. THEY are:

1:Whatever Democrat wins the primary(Probably Clinton or Tsongas)
2:Perot


The REALITY of the situation is that ONE OF THESE 6 PEOPLE RUNNING ***WILL***
BE PRESIDENT FOR THE NEXT TERM.

Our JOB is to decide which one is best.  This probably will mean that it will
be a choice of the lesser of two evils.
BUT, that is no reason to decide that they are ALL unfit, and not vote,
since one will win anyway.

IT IS UP TO US TO MAKE THE CHOICE BETWEEN THEM, NOT WISH THAT THEY WERE NOT
RUNNING.  Wishing just will NOT work.
These people probably have a ton of shortfallings/skeletons in the closet/
errors made in the past/etc/etc.....
What do you expect?  How would you fare?  Could you do a better job, or would
it be the same as the current job that everybody seems to be doing?
How muchdirt/enemies/etc. could be used against you? would YOU survive
unscathed?
They ARE humans, and pretty"Human" humans, afterall.  Nobody's perfect, or even
close.

The question should not be:"This guy sucks.....", BUT "which one is best?".

Also, it is our DUTY as citizens of this country to make sure that the people
that are running for the office are the best choices available.
In this case, they all seem to "suck", but it is your DUTY to make sure that
the BEST two or three run.  Anyone who does not do so has no right to
complain about the state of things, since they didn't even bother to
participate in the only form of recourse open to a democratic society, namely
VOTING.

Voting should be MANDATORY for all citizens, and there should be some way to
make sure that all people DO vote. - If this means that there is a national
holiday to allow people to get to the polls, or some action taken against
people who want to use the system for aid/etc. who failed to vote,
then so be it.  Participation in the processes seems like a fair tradeoff for
being a citizen of this country.  If you don't want to participate, then why
should you remain here, since you obviously don't care enough about your own
destiny to even vote?  I know of many, many, many people all over the world
who WISH they had the ability to even vote.

I just wish so many people did not take what we have for granted.  True it is
full of holes in places, and has MANY problems, but we still are the nation
that most of the world aspires to be like, or to move to.

Well, enough of my opinions, time to explain to everyone WHAT canidate of the
six is the BEST choice, IN YOUR OPINION, and why.

Joe
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