Sunday, October 31, 2004, 6:53:02 PM, Eric Yost wrote: EY> Judy offered "to explain, by means of a recap. Didier gave reasons why EY> the US should vote Bush out. You replied by giving a reason, of a EY> different kind, why the French should vote Chirac out. I then posted EY> giving yet another kind of reason why the US should vote Bush out." EY> _____ EY> And of course Judy is right to do so. There are lots of (internal US) EY> reasons for voting Bush back to Crawford: the Patriot Act and the EY> possibility of Patriot Act II, his supply-side tax cuts during war time, EY> the Republican party's morbid monopoly in public forums, his EY> environmental record, his job outsourcing policies, his Christian EY> agenda, his lack of bipartisanship in framing legislation, and the EY> prospect of his appointing Supreme Court justices who would carry his EY> "values" forward for decades. EY> There are also lots of international reasons to vote Bush to oblivion. EY> But why stop there? Because there's an election in the US on Tuesday; because of the composition of this list; because of media coverage of the US election; etc.. Come Wednesday, we can talk about voting Blair into history. -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html