I didn't hear about this until now. I don't Bush should do this...this should have ZERO support, and this is not an issue to play politics, nor is it the time. The UN has no business overseeing our elections. That group can't even be trusted to run the oil for food program without taking billions in kickbacks...no way they should be allowed to oversee anything in the US. Another thing that idiot politicians are doing that would make the founding fathers turn over in their graves!
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Constitution Doesn't OK U.N. Election Monitoring
Tom Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, demonstrated his bipartisanship when it comes to deferring America's independence.
After blasting John Kerry for his overt globalist agenda, Kilgannon is bashing the Bush State Department for the same headlong charge down the slope of America's slipping sovereignty.
"Obviously, somebody over at Foggy Bottom misread the Constitution," stated Kilgannon. "According to our Founding Fathers, it is the 'States' -- not the 'State Department' -- which are in charge of overseeing federal elections."
The State Department splashed headlines around the world and incensed many Americans recently with its invitation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), an Austrian-based human rights group, to monitor the U.S. presidential election on November 2 -- setting a terrifically damaging precedent for future U.S. elections.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, and 10 of her Democrat colleagues started the whole mess by running to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to see if he would take time out from his scandal with the Oil-for-Food program to get the world body involved in the U.S. elections.
"The United States is the best example of representative democracy, fairness and equality that the world has ever seen," said Kilgannon. "Any American who believes that foreign institutions like the United Nations and the OSCE are more qualified to judge any election in our country is unfit to hold a position of trust in the government. On November 2, millions of American citizens will exercise their right to participate in the most sacred act of American democracy -- our presidential election. Americans have been electing their own leaders for 200 years. We don't need advice from the French or the Germans, thank you very much."
The Gore/ Bush election put the American electoral system under the spotlight globally. It called into question whether the US is actually a democratic nation or a hypocritical nation spouting on about democracy of other nations and then holding corrupt elections themselves. It is necessary to have UN monitoring to restore the electoral process's integrity and reputation, as well as that of America as a legitimate democratic nation. Let them come. Right now we are the laughing stock of Europe, Asia and Africa. I travel frequently between these continents and hear the sentiment all the time. If there is nothing to hide, there is nothing to get upset about.
Posted by: alison at October 5, 2004 03:28 AM