Reply #66: The outside world looking in - UWM, USC [View All]

The results of the election and referendum were announced on Saturday night. The saga, however, continues and the defeated candidates seem unwilling to bow out. Edward Friedman, a professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Daniel C. Lynch, an assistant professor at the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, talked to `Taipei Times' staff reporter Stephanie Wen about what the situation now holds for Taiwan



Monday, Mar 22, 2004,Page 9

TT: You said that observers from around the world are shocked to see Lien Chan's behavior. How will Lien Chan's action affect Taiwan's image in the international arena?

Friedman: A leader of a party who is running for a head of a state is not allowed to have emotions and passions, which are all understandable, shape his public statement in that kind of situation. It is his job to inform his followers as to what are the proper democratic things to do. Taiwan had a transparent democratic election. The numbers are real. Everybody knows that the counting was absolute open and public and verified. And as much as we can understand why they would feel disappointed, the important thing for the leaders to say, is that, the results are the results we abide by. In a democracy it is the procedures which are decisive. And that's what he should say to his people.

I think this morning some people at the Presidential Office are beginning to change their rhetoric and beginning to say that we should allow legal procedures to determine the outcome.

It would have been very nice if he had said something like that in the beginning also.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/03/22/2003107314

Hey Proff, you forgot to mention Lien and the KMT are NOT a candidate or a party, they are a lying murderous corrupt bastard and a Facsict Regime that invaded Formosa, (not part of China) in 1949. Who the hell was your Proff in school? Mike Chinoy?