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To: NucTrader who wrote (37060)	11/13/2000 8:53:29 PM
From: pater tenebrarum	Respond to of 436258

the world in any case has a good laugh at America's expense: BERLIN ( Reuters ) - Three American exchange students did little to enhance the credibility of their country's voting system by failing miserably to count the number of chairs in the auditorium on a German television game show. In a less-than-subtle dig at the United States' failure to produce a president-elect after almost a week of recounts, host Thomas Gottschalk Saturday gave the three students an hour to count the seats -- and got answers ranging from 1,860 to 2,077. It may have been only a game show, but there was plenty of gloating Monday. The mass-circulation daily Bild could not resist reminding readers how Republican candidate George W. Bush accused his Democratic opponent Al Gore of using "fuzzy math" in his campaign assertions. The daily Die Welt simply added: "Americans can't count." "Wetten dass?" ( Wanna Bet? ) is Germany's most popular program and regularly draws audience shares above 40 percent. “Russia and Cuba laugh at the American Elections” – announces to his readers Dutch ( newspaper ) “Folkskrant.” With sarcasm the outside world watches the chaos and problems around the American elections” – write Dutch journalists. “Cuba blames for everything the Cuban immigrants in Miami, and Russia is happy to be ready to come and help.” As reported by “Folkskrant,” the Cuban press blames in the American political crisis the Cuban circles, which, in their words, committed forgery and falsifications with the goal of returning their political influence in America, lost after return to Cuba of the little boy Elian Gonzales. And the Russian president Putin did not forget to mention to the western mass media that the head of Russian electoral commission is now in Washington as an observer. “If necessary, he can advise his American counterparts how to behave in difficult situation, in which they found themselves” – he added with a smile. The Dutch newspaper describes also how the ex-Russian foreign minister Andriey Kozyrev called the American democracy “insufficient” and a member of Russian Duma Boris Hemcov necessitated “modernization of the American electoral system.” The head of electoral commission Aleksandr Bershakov talks about the American system like about “an unhealthy experiment, which we in Russia have to escape.” The Cuban newspaper “Granma” explores how unless Florida has a re-vote, the whole world will consider the USA a “banana republic.” According to them, “the political leaders of the USA do not have any other choice but to conduct a re-vote in Miami, if they want to preserve the fiction that they have something resembling a democracy in that country.” “Anti-Castro mafia of Cuban immigrants, decided on its own to chose who will be the new American president, toward which not only did they invest huge amount of money in the election, but also shamelessly try to change its outcome, just like they were doing in Cuba after the 1959 revolution.” Cuban foreign minister Peres Roke publicly indicated a necessity of international control of the elections in the USA, to preventing mockery of the will of millions of voters. Similar opinions are coming out of Mexico, where this summer first “clean elections” took place. “Electoral process of a country, which demands democracy from others, itself is now in doubt” – announced newspaper “La Hornada.”