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| 2004/7/12 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:32243 Activity:high |
7/12 My nightmare seems closer to reality now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/politics/campaign/12vote.html
("Federal officials are looking into what legal authority if any they
would have to postpone the November presidential election in the
event of a terrorist strike, a Department of Homeland Security
official said Sunday.")
\_ What is your nightmare? An orderly response to a terrorist attack?
Note that the NYC mayoral primary was delayed when the attacks hit
on 9/11 (day of the election). Considering that a hit would most
likely be on an urban center (which tend to vote liberal) do you
think this is a bad thing?
\_ mayoral primary. big deal.
\_ A primary is a quite different. For one the dates of the
election are not mandated in the constitution. For another they
don't have quite the same importance. Remember Guilliani also
tried to get a few more months of his term to "deal with the
situation" in New York and that made a lot of New Yorkers who
were previously happy with Gulliani quite grumpy. He didn't
get those extra months BTW.
\_ Have the freepers come to motd? Usually we have more intelligent
conservatives posting.
\_ Do you have a response to the content or are you just another
mindless ad hominem drone?
\_ Your last sentence ("Considering that ...") speaks for
itself. What are you trying to say in this sentence?
\_ I think what the poster was referring to is the president might
create a terrorist event to reschedule the election more to his
liking.
\_ Yeah, but I tend to ignore tinfoil hat nutjobs. He probably
thinks Bush orchestrated 9/11.
\_ Bush didn't orchestrate 9/11, but he sure took advantage
of it in order to topple Hussein, and take away our civil
liberties with the un-patriotic act. If there is a
terrorist attack *and* Bush has the numbers to lose, don't
bother even questioning for a split-second that Bush won't
delay the election until he can spin-ster his way to
victory.
\_ That bastard! How dare he topple Hussein! -- ilyas
\_ Teresa Nielsen Hayden: "I deeply resent the way this admin-
istration makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist."
I don't think W [w|c]ould orchestrate a terrorist attack.
That said, I am deathly afraid of any postponement of the
election. Come up with a better plan, you morons. -op |
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| www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/politics/campaign/12vote.html Most E-Mailed Articles WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Federal officials are looking into what legal authority if any they would have to postpone the November presidential election in the event of a terrorist strike, a Department of Homeland Security official said Sunday. Though officials warned last week that Al Qaeda might seek to disrupt the election, the official cautioned that there was no specific intelligence that such an attack was in the works. |