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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (93575)	11/29/2000 9:08:06 AM
From: microhoogle!	Respond to of 769670

You mean, Bush is acting like a dictator ?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (93575)	11/29/2000 9:08:27 AM
From: U Up U Down	Respond to of 769670

" I blame the Bush campaign for the death of Nelson," ---- The late Lars-Erik Nelson characterized the post-election tactics used by Ms. Harris and the Bush campaign in Florida as “a mugging.” When you consider the massive pre-election fraud in Seminole County—in which Republican registrars altered thousands of absentee-ballot applications in order to qualify G.O.P. voters and disqualify Democrats—you could call it a Republican wilding. If you want to know the truth, I blame the Bush campaign for the death of Nelson, one of the best journalists in America, someone who deserves a posthumous Pulitzer not just for his powerful, skeptical reporting on the Wen Ho Lee case, but for his consistently brilliant and iconoclastic commentary over the course of a career. Nelson saw what was going on in Florida early on, and he didn’t see it with any equanimity: One of his colleagues at the Daily News called him on the day of his death, the afternoon of the televised Florida Supreme Court argument, and recalled Nelson crying out, “I can’t believe they said that!” over some outrageous assertion by the lawyers for Ms. Harris and Mr. Bush. A few hours later, he was found in front of his television set, dead of a stroke. No one will convince me it was unrelated. I know the experience of watching developments in Florida—and I would venture to guess that no one in America has devoted (or wasted) more hours to nonstop “all re-count all the time” TV than I have—has frequently driven my blood pressure to dangerous, if not yet stroke-like, levels. observer.com RIP