Date: 28 Jan 2001 17:45:22 -0800 From: "Carl Ellison" To: web@thislife.org Subject: Wonderful show! Thank you!!! This week's show was really great. I have bookmarked it. It stands out as an important summary of this event. I was reminded during the show that the election is not over and everything we see is a side effect of that fact. To me (in the computer business, specifically doing security), the purpose of the election is to get an objective result by rules decided ahead of time that put an end to the campaign rhetoric. This election, by being closer than the voting mechanism error rate (between 3 and 5%, depending on the source you read) can not be over. Since it wasn't over in November, we got to see the ugliness of campaign rhetoric building up to no deciding event but rather trying to sway a decision by rhetoric alone. So, the rhetoric keeps escalating, and with it the anger. But the end of your show was perfect. Given that this was an undecidable election and the current president got there in spite of the will of the people, he still has an opportunity to show that he was the man the majority of voters would have wanted to vote for, if they had only known what he was really like. Of course, Ashcroft and Norton and tax cuts for the rich are not the way to show that..... - Carl Ellison Portland OR