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

To: maverick61 who wrote (90288)	11/27/2000 2:37:04 PM
From: maverick61	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

And the NY POST joins the parade of major newsmedia calling for Gore's concession: nypost.com IT'S OFFICIAL: BUSH WINS Monday,November 27,2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George W. Bush got the hat trick. And now it's time for Al Gore to pull the plug. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris last night certified the results of her state's presidential balloting. The winner: Gov. Bush, by the slimmest of all possible official margins - 537 votes out of 6 million cast. But let there be no mistake on the essential point: George W. Bush won. He won Florida - and the presidency - on Nov. 7. Then he won the state's legally mandated machine recount. And then he won the Florida Supreme Court-mandated manual recount - a mandate that involved a breathtaking rewrite of state law. Last night, Gov. Bush went on television and spoke a profound truth: "This has been a hard-fought election. But now that the votes are counted, it is time for the votes to count." In so many words, he called on Al Gore Jr. to be a patriot. And Bush was right: It is past time for Gore to concede this election. One can only imagine the vice-president's agony. How frustrating to have traveled so far, to have come so close - and to lose by so infinitesimal a margin. By all reasonable benchmarks, this year's presidential election ended in a virtual dead heat. But can be no virtual presidents. This process must end. And, by rights, it has. Bush won more votes - as determined by (not to put too fine a point on it) three separate counts. So Bush has been elected president. Yet the need to grasp at one more straw consumes the Gore camp. It was with unbecoming bitterness that Sen. Joe Lieberman last night promised to continue the fight. "We must proceed in a way that honors the rule of law and strengthens the institutions of our free society," Lieberman said - ironic given the Democrats' open disregard for Florida law. The vice president's people have said they'll go to court again - citing the now-infamous "butterfly ballot," faulty machines and confusing instructions from poll workers as having stood between Al Gore and the presidency. Yes, the process was flawed. But the flaws cut both ways. For every "butterfly ballot" vote lost to Gore, how many military absentee-ballot votes for Bush weren't counted? And so on. If Gore does indeed proceed with his planned challenges - that is, to be clear, if he undertakes his fourth attempt to change the outcome - the Bush camp is not without resources. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday afternoon regarding a suit brought by Bush. Meanwhile, the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature can step in and deliver the state's presidential electors to the man who won them on the up. But country needs none of this. The country does need Al Gore Jr. to do the right thing. He goes before the nation at noon. He needs to concede.

To: maverick61 who wrote (90288)	11/27/2000 2:45:41 PM
From: moufassa7	Respond to of 769670

mav, I don't think Gore cares if the Herald and Post want him to concede. If the Globe and Times call for him to quit, then that would be different.

To: maverick61 who wrote (90288)	11/27/2000 6:10:54 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Excellent points in that Chicago article, IMO, Re: "Will-of-the-people turns out to be code for embracing technicalities when they serve his needs (as with his success in getting Broward County to use a liberal rule for counting indentations as votes), but ridiculing technicalities when they do not (as with his successful challenge to a Florida law that requires hand recounts to be completed within seven days of an election)." and particularly, Re: "He could have graciously called from the start for a second statewide recount by uniform means--either by hand or by machine--but instead aimed only for hand recounts in counties controlled by Democrats. He could have agreed that counties should use their pre-existing rules to determine how questionable ballots should be counted, but instead pushed for new rules, drawn on the fly, on how to evaluate indented chads in ways that would be favorable to him. The bolded above is going to define one long lasting impression of Mr. Gore...a County Grubbing, fairness ignoring lout. Dan B