Re: Send a Message to "Big Oil"

XS11E wrote:

> Neither new nor brilliant, it was done exactly that way until the 
> passage of the twelfth amendment in 1804.

Yep, Adams was the first VP after losing to Wa****ngton, then Jefferson 
was the 2nd VP after losing to Adams, then became the 3rd President 
after beating Adams the 2nd time around.

History is fun. Amazing how little the average American knows, 
especially since we only have 232 years of it.

Of course, supposedly 1/5 of the adults in the U.S. can not find their 
own country on a world map, so it is not that shocking.

> The twelfth amendment was necessary because the "brilliant" idea was a 
> complete and utter failure.

Good thing they passed it, otherwise we might not have this properly 
oiled and working electoral system in place.

Our current system put the losing man in office two terms ago. That is 
what I would call "a complete and utter failure".

Pat