According to National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, the White House has no plans in the works to try to delay the presidential election in case of a terrorist attack on the United States. This is good news, especially given the e-mails that were sent to one of the local TV stations about the suggestion made by "Buster" Soaries, a Bush crony who is now in charge of something or other called the "Federal Election Assistance Commission," and passed on to Congress by Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. The TV station read some of these, which were uniformly dismayed, angry, and extremely negative about the proposal of allowing somebody in the Executive Branch to decide on whether or not, or when, we get to vote for President.
I would, however, like to remind the attractive and knowledgeable Ms. Rice that whether the White House has such a plan or not is irrelevant. It is Congress that determines the time of the presidential election.
Saluton Don,
Spanish people went through a similar situation in our last elections. In our case, the president (José M. Aznar) lost the election, mainly because many people, who didn't intend to vote before the terrorist attack occur, did vote... to another party, of course :)
IMHO, this makes evidence that the more people voting, the worst for the current government. And people is usually bored about the elections, so they don't vote. If a terrorist attack occurs (I hope no) many people will vote which will be a big problem for Mr. Bush, so I think he's trying to prevent a situation similar to the spanish one.
Gxis la relego! ;)
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