"In other words, you don't need a consortium to know which way the wind blew--or to know that the man in the White House is there, legitimately or not, by mistake."

And that's something >you< apparently cannot, or will not, accept: the man in the White House is there only through a combination of a thoroughly unfunny comedy of errors and a corrupt system.

Best comments I've read here: [link|http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20011203|http://www.thenatio...l?i=20011203]&s=corn

(For the McNews impaired: The Nation is the oldest news magazine in the US and can be accurately described as being a slight bit Left of center. Read it (especially Alexander Cockburn's "Beat the Devil") and you'll understand why the almost imperceptibly small minority of US citizens who can bend at the knee when they walk are greatly amused when told of a "Left bias in the medja")