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

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (72178)	11/13/2000 1:32:04 AM
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I haven't visited here for ages so didn't know it had been posted, sorry. It just came in an email along with this link, which has probably been posted here, too: fury.com The description of the three cognitive paths that could lead to misreading didn't include one explained by an old guy whom i heard interviewed on the radio. It might be called the Habit Problem. This guy said he had voted fifty times, and that was the first time the second hole hadn't been for the second candidate. I'm not at all sure I think the fact that the ballots got screwed up by 4% of the people -- assuming it wasn't actually fraud, but just poor design produced innocently, as I do -- implies there should be a recount. There are dangers in starting that stuff. And maybe i'd rather have Bush reside over a crippled country for four years, anyway. Of course there is the consideration of all those judges Bush gets to appoint. I a little am surprised, though, that Bush hasn't stepped down, or at least that there isn't a clamor for him to do so. He evidently got a minority of the popular vote, and possibly got a minority of the electoral vote, too, in a moral sense -- that is, if one counts only the votes cast for him voluntarily, in Florida. I look forward to his presidency. It will be entertaining. I don't much look forward to a Gore/Hillary ticket in 2004, though. They will beat him, since everyone will know he had whatever the opposite of a mandate is and isn't really there as the people's choice. I guess the opposite of a mandate is getting in through an absurd stroke of luck even though most of the people didn't want you there. One thing that will be entertaining is getting to see Chaney by his side answering the hard questions, but casting his eyes down to the ground modestly as though he thought he was no smarter than Bush, glancing deferentially toward him as though to see whether he was saying the right thing, the way he did on the lawn yesterday... as if Bush knew what was up. It was a priceless performance, and we'll get to see a lot of those -- sidekicks pretending that Bush is on the ball -- the next four years.