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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (81515)	11/18/2000 9:57:16 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Gore just wants to follow normal and ordinary state law in this matter. This was written by lml on another thread. Give it a read. I'll give you a chance to reconsider your statement. One comment I'd like to make here, to those who are following in detail what is going on here on a day-to-day, hour-by-hour basis is something that is not much different that goes on in a court of law, only here the rules aren't well defined. My intent to raise this analogy is to appreciate that each side of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans, are playing their role as advocates for their party. Like lawyers in a court of law, the ideal that their purpose is to seek truth, here in the instant case that is the will of the people, is a complete myth, and any claim to that ideal is bogus. If you wish to disagree with me, I suggest you go to a video library and watch the hours of tapes of the OJ Simpson trial and tell me if a lawyer's job is to seek the truth. Its not. Lawyers, instead, are first and foremost advocates, and they will formulate an hypothesis in support of what they perceived to be a winning argument and selectively seek out evidence that's supports their hypothesis, and selectively exclude evidence that contradicts it. A lawyer has a duty to address law contrary to their position, and in criminal cases exculpatory facts, but in this case in the court of public opinion, and the way these manual counts are being administered and supervised you can be certain that whatever you here on TV or any other media is first and foremost advocacy and not necessarily, and most unlikely, the truth.