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

To: mph who wrote (100070)	12/4/2000 10:57:51 AM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

THOUSANDS OF FELONS IN FLORIDA MAY HAVE VOTED-AP This thing is getting uglier all the time. AP wire reports that 477 felons have voted in Florida. With 75% of them being registered as Democrat, that ain't good news for Gore. I must agree that it is probably impossible to discern a winner of the Florida electorial votes at this point. -John

To: mph who wrote (100070)	12/4/2000 10:58:00 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 769667

>>>Bush didn't "decline" Gore's "offer" of a statewide recount. The so-called offer was made when it was too late to request it. Consequently, the "offer" was meaningless.<<< Not true. Check the date. Has Texas certified its electors yet? Is New Mexico now hand recounting a specific Republican county? >>>I had no objection to Gore's initial requests for recounts because he was entitled to make those requests.<<< Too bad he didn't get what you agreed to. >>>What I object to is what he's put this country through ever since. At this point, it's time to be a statesman and let it go. There is simply no way to recount anything and produce an "accurate" result at this point that anyone will believe.<<< This wouldn't have happened without Bush's efforts to block Gore's rightful request to a recount. Nationwide, a recount determines the winner. In states which use the kind of voting technology Florida used, hand recounts, as testified by Bush's prime voting machine witness in the trial, is the way to discern the winner. >>>I am also dismayed at the race card being played. This is a time to start healing the country, not to divide it further. It seems that when matters devolve to the race card, it's like capitulation selling in the market. The end is near.<<< I couldn't agree with you more. Actually, I thought the most honorable act would have been, given the tightness of the race, for Bush to concede once he realized that Buchanon, according to Buchanon's own addmission, got so many of Gore's votes. Enough votes that Gore would have won. Bush would have instantly become an American hero respected by both major policities parties--minior ones even--and definitely would have become a future American president in good standing. He would have proved himself a "uniter," and not a "divider." Once he went to court to block the fair and legally-allowable Gore recount, Bush became a "divider."