h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Winners: None yet.

Losers: The American people.

How horribly true. This is getting way out of hand, and I think that soon no one will really care who wins as long as this ends soon.

The interesting thing is, I didn't care who would win before election day. Now that we're through that, I just keep being presented with new reasons to loathe them both. I hope they manage to tie up the courts for a dozen years on this one, and we'll spend those years without a president. We spent the last 8 year without a president, and look where that got us... unprecedented prosperity.

You've got even more to lose --- see the 'special offer' on TC's place (http://www.h2g2.com/U154942).
And is it true that the U.S. is giving away some thousand Green Cards now for people who just prove to be able to count numbers from 1 to 100?

Gore is acting like a punk. Then again, what do you expect from a democrat?

Democrats, Republicans, who can tell the difference anymore? They're all one party now, the Republicrats, and their party platform is "send me your money."

Handing out green cards? I don't know about that. Lack of green cards has never bothered too many anyway, as the population of the Southwest and Florida clearly shows. I did hear that one of the Republicrat branches was pushing some immigrants through the naturalization process so they could vote for their particular branch. Politics as usual in the land of the free...

The more they stay the same.

Check out http://www.h2g2.com/A477849 - Pennsylvania's Buckshot War.

Sometimes it pays to save your history notes from college. I knew this whole mess sounded familiar...

- X

I'm not sure why people keep saying the American people "lost" in this election. What exactly have we lost? Is it a loss to have been deprived of GW Bush's sanctimonious smirk while he holes up in his mansion and tries to act "presidential"? Is it a loss to see the other condescending smartass struggle to keep from pouting over losing a race after winning the election?

I just don't see the tragedy in any of this. What's wrong with a political election ending up with a political decision? Justice Stevens is completely right--the only loser is the delusion that the Supreme Court was ever above politics (as if there was something inherently evil or tainted about partisan politics).

From a strictly economic perspective, the American people were stuck with the bill for all of those recounts and court sessions, so we lost money.

From an ideological perspective, we lost our innocence and naive comfort in the idea that we had a government that was somehow above all of this.

From a political perspective, we gave corporate America a bigger stake in the presidency, since they were the ones who provided the funds to hire the platoons of lawyers. They will expect a greater return on their investment... to the detriment of the American people.

From a social perspective, we earned the ridicule of the rest of the world... again.

How many more ways have we lost?

Erm, don't forget ....

Nope, you're right. That about covers it.