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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95248)	11/30/2000 7:39:09 AM
From: U Up U Down	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

AL'S GOT NO ONE TO BLAME BUT HIMSELF Thursday,November 30,2000 By DEBORAH ORIN INSIDE WASHINGTON AL GORE is acting as if he knows it's now or never for him to become president. That's why the vice president frantically hopped channel to channel on TV last night, using his best imitation Ronald Reagan head-nods to say he won't give up, even though most Americans want him to. Forget all the talk about how Gore can graciously concede and become president-in-exile until 2004. It's too late to be gracious - and anyway, Democratic fund-raisers just don't buy it. To put it bluntly, a lot of Democrats figure Ralph Nader is right - Gore should have won easily, given America's peace and prosperity. They say he lost because he's a lousy candidate and ran a lousy campaign. nypost.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95248)	11/30/2000 7:41:32 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 769667

Does Lieberman endorse torture? Cordesman urges that Israel's security forces return to the torture techniques that were finally abandoned under High Court order a year ago. Joe Lieberman is one of the senators belonging to the CSIS Middle East Task Force. Thus far, despite explicit requests for comment, he has not disavowed Cordesman's prescriptions, which have been condemned by Amnesty International USA. counterpunch.org

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95248)	11/30/2000 7:42:27 AM
From: U Up U Down	Respond to of 769667

Fla. voters polled accept Bush win BY JIM SLOAN MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE Nov 30, 2000 TAMPA, Fla. - The election may still be up for grabs, but most Florida voters have already picked a winner. A new poll says 62 percent of state voters accept George W. Bush as the winner in Florida. Thirty-seven percent don't accept Bush, and 1 percent are unsure. Support for Vice President Al Gore, meanwhile, has started to slip among the faithful: Twenty-four percent of Gore voters now say they accept Bush as the winner in Florida. timesdispatch.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95248)	11/30/2000 7:43:27 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 769667

<<Wave the flag and demonize Gore but, in the meanwhile, don't let them count those votes. We will be exposed. >> You, of course, intend counting of only those votes that were punched (after the fact) by Democrats on a stolen voting machine, but not those of our men & women in uniform or the original counting of those with chads taped back into the hole for GWB. You guys can cheat - but you can't hide from the fire of coming truth.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95248)	11/30/2000 7:45:15 AM
From: cAPSLOCK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Wave the flag and demonize Gore but, in the meanwhile, don't let them count those votes. We will be exposed. Exposed what?? Exposed of being too stupid to allow Gore TO STEAL THE ELECTION by counting only a few selective undervotes in the name of fairness? What a total load of BULLSHIT. cAPSOCK

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95248)	11/30/2000 7:45:56 AM
From: U Up U Down	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Don't change the rules Published Wednesday, November 29, 2000, in the Miami Herald CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Take away the lawyers, the spinners and the demonstrators, and you are left with the conundrum of this election: The margin of victory is smaller than the margin of error of our vote-counting technology. We can never know who really won. Only God knows the location and meaning of every hidden, dimpled, missing or underpunched ballot in Florida. It is therefore absurd to speak of the ``will of the people.'' It can never be ascertained. What to do? Just follow the rules. They may be arbitrary, inadequate and no more likely to produce the divinely inscrutable ``will of the people'' than a flip of a coin. But the rules are the only legitimate way of deciding such a contest. Which rules? The ones as they existed on Election Day. That is what is wrong with the Gore campaign's unyielding attempt to keep counting and recounting, suing and countersuing, divining and intuiting indiscernible voter intentions, in order to create enough votes to win. herald.com