November 2- US Presidential Elections

First of all, I must thank Morticia for standing in for me while I was away on patriotic duty. She did a great job, and if you realize that her first contributions were written and posted whilst Hurricane Wilma was raging above her home, leaving her without electricity, than you can also appreciate her dedication.


As expected, there�s nothing really note-worthy to report today.

No great battles that decided the future fate of whole continents, no monarchs beheaded or assassinated on this day, and the only observation that one makes, when looking through the various lists in circulation, is that November 2 is a popular day for American Presidential elections.
So, it�s only a year gone, since on November 2, 2004 George W. Bush beat his Democrat rival John Kerry, to be elected for a second period. How time flies when you enjoy yourself.
On November 2, 1976 the former Governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, defeated the reigning President Gerald Ford, who had assumed the post after Nixon�s resignation due to the Watergate affair. Carter only lasted for four years and had to make space for the former Hollywood B-Movie Starlet Ronald Reagan. Although rejected in his own country, Carter became somewhat of an international success, jetting around the world on various peace and human rights missions for which he received the Peace Nobel Prize in 2002.
On November 2, 1948 Harry S. Truman was re-elected as US President. Having followed F.D. Roosevelt to the job, Truman oversaw the last months of WW2, taking part in the Potsdam Conference that decided the fate of the beaten Germany, ordering the drop of the atom bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On November 2, 1880 James A Garfield, a veteran General of the Civil War, was elected 20th President of the USA, and after only four month in the office, assassinated in July 1881.

There�s one more thing and it�s bit closer to home. A year ago, on November 2, 2004, the Dutch film maker and journalist Theo van Gogh was stabbed to death in Amsterdam by a youth of Moroccan origin, who had been enraged by van Gogh�s sarcastic criticism of Islamic values in word and pictures. The Dutch public was profoundly shocked, its xenophobic elements attacked mosques and Muslim schools, and the relations between the Dutch and the large Muslim immigrant community became severely disturbed. The assassination started a Europe wide discussion about the successes and failures of integration and the multi-cultural society, and the Dutch government took the opportunity to further tighten their traditionally tolerant asylum and immigration rules, and to enforce a number of so-called anti-terrorism laws that undermined the famed Dutch liberal society.

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Edited by Komnenos

Welcome back, Komnenos!

It was my pleasure to have been of assistance to you and AE...but, I'm so glad you're back!    For the record...I still have NO power(just running on generator for now) but making the best of it!

Thanks for your kind words, Maju!

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