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

To: bigsablepoint who wrote (78746)	11/16/2000 7:58:45 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sorry, it won't work on me. You have failed to understand who you are dealing with, and I have not.

To: bigsablepoint who wrote (78746)	11/16/2000 8:00:09 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm still waiting for a joke. Surely you can think of one.

To: bigsablepoint who wrote (78746)	11/16/2000 8:17:35 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You are perpetuating a lie. The election would be over except that Gore forced it into court: (BTW - I hadn't know #2 on her list until I read this piece.) Lie No. 1: We don't know who won the election yet. Yes we do. George W. Bush won, albeit narrowly. Al Gore demanded a recount in one of the states he lost narrowly. After the Gore loser got his recount, it turned out the winner was ... Bush again! (Subject only to a final count of the overseas ballots, which have historically gone Republican in Florida and elsewhere.) Consequently, Gore insisted upon yet a third recount, this time with a highly manipulable and probably unconstitutional hand recount in only Democrat counties. By his fourth try, Gore will be insisting on counting only the votes of Gore campaign staff. Lie No. 2: Gore has nothing to do with the Florida recount, which is mandated by law. This is false. Gore is completely responsible for dragging the country through this. The recount is not like some "Star Chamber" unstoppable cataclysm. Gore set it in motion when he retracted his concession to Bush on election night. The "shall order a recount" language means only that the loser doesn't have to pay for a recount in close elections. This is not an insignificant point: Recounts are extremely expensive. But it does not mean that in a national election to determine the next leader of the free world that the loser is absolutely required to drag the country though 17 recounts and endless litigation before finally conceding. The Florida recount provision explicitly states: "A recount need not be ordered with respect to the returns for any office, however, if the candidate or candidates defeated or eliminated from contention for such office by one-half of a percent or less of the votes cast for such office request in writing that a recount not be made." The current crisis is all Gore's fault. He could put an end to this madness any time he wants by conceding like a man. (Bush could not, by the way. He can't stop it because he's not the loser: Gore is. jewishworldreview.com