Election 2000: For Moments Like This, I Love This Country

Despite, if not because of, its quirks

We come on the ship they call the Mayflower, We come on the ship that sailed the Moon, We come in the age's most uncertain hour, And sing an American tune.

I'll say! (Paul Simon sang.) Talk about uncertain hours. And yet, you gotta love it. Here's an election with everything America has to offer--choices, arguments, laughs, gaffs, screw-ups, recounts of recounts, old people with placards, chaos without penalty and--God bless 'em--lawyers. I love this country. Thanks to moments like this, I know it's there.

I heard a nitwit on a cable-TV news show say this mess is bound to discourage...

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