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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zx who wrote (67905)	11/10/2000 6:52:33 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush's meager 327 vote lead after the recount, together with perhaps only an incrementally higher level, at best, from the absentee ballots will seem very, very small compared to the number of votes Gore should have received in Palm Beach County. Bush's campaign just called for Gore to concede. Thus, it appears Bush has missed his historical moment and the possibility to establish a sure steppingstone to a future presidency. Bush should have, due to the Palm Beach County voting discrepancy where Buchanon got Gore's votes, conceded Florida to Gore. Had he done this he could have gone down in history as America's best citizen. He blew it! The nation, except for GOPwinger hardliners, will NEVER accept Bush given that Gore won the national popular vote and should have and deserved to win the Florida vote which would have made him president. I guess the money interests within the Bush campaign have proven more powerful than good citizenship, as Bush will assume the presidency, unless challenged in the court, on the strength of someone else's votes. My view? It's an American tragedy! And anyone trumpeting what Nixon did, conceding to Kennedy in 1960, do note Nixon did not win the national popular vote as Gore has done in Year 2000. As an aside, I find it encouraging that some Repubublicans are beginning to appear in interviews with the opinion Bush should not assume the presidency until the election is fairly considered. If Bush does so, he will lose the support of those Republicans even. Again, Bush blew one of the greatest moments in history by not conceding Florida to Gore while the recount was in process, since he had knowledge that the final result of the recount would be as close as it became, 327 votes.