[Peace-discuss] on Kucinich and Paul

[Michael Shapiro]

The Roe vs Wade decision occurred in January, 1973. The oil embargo occurred
in October, 1973. I suspect that these 2 events have been working ever since
to lead to where we are now.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973>

On Nov 15, 2007 8:54 AM, Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> >   The German Chancellor is "elected", right? Hitler,  too.
>
> This is what bothers me. A democracy should provide ways to "sack" an
> elected official when they turn out to be doing horrible things, like
> breaking international laws for instance.
>
> Impeachment is a safety valve for just such a situation.
>
> But so many Americans don't want to use the safety valve. Along the same
> lines, some people say that Bush is the Commander-in-chief of the military
> and must be followed, yet there is nothing that qualifies him to do the job,
> nor does he listen to the people who are qualified.
>
> So how has Bush established the untouchable status that no democratic
> leader should ever achieve? Is it through poor education of the masses (not
> necessarily of Bush as an individual) in the high school civics classes? Are
> we learning that you can fool lots of people for a very long time?
>
> -karen medina
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