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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3361)	12/6/2000 10:54:12 AM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 3887

Gustav: I was not clear in the reference to Powell. I find the expression that "they" should aspire to be "like" Powell to be vapid. And I saw the Vietnamese Constitutional Law professor on TV as well. I was as impressed as you were on the same levels as you were. Other than that, I have to agree with you basically on all counts.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3361)	12/6/2000 11:04:13 AM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

WOW! Very good perception and excellent expression! All Americans on this thread should thank you for this commendation. What you wrote is the basis for my pride in being an American. One thing though, shits happen to all kind of races at the bottom.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3361)	12/6/2000 12:55:04 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3887

Gore Caught Telling Seminole Case Whopper If you were as confused as we were Tuesday when Vice President Al Gore charged that Democrat absentee ballot applications were "thrown out" by Republican election officials in Seminole County, Florida, don't worry. You didn't miss what would undoubtedly be a bombshell development; one as yet unreported anywhere else. It turns out that no absentee ballot applications -- Democrat or Republican -- were thrown out in Seminole. Gore simply made the allegation up out of whole cloth. "More than enough votes were potentially taken away from Democrats because they were not given the same access as Republicans," Gore told reporters outside the White House. "Remember, according to what's come out in that case... Democrats were denied an opportunity to come in, denied a chance to even look at the applications and those applications were thrown out." "Now, that doesn't seem fair to me," Gore complained. Only the New York Daily News noted Gore's whopper, first citing the above quote then explaining to its readers: "The vice president misstated the central issue in the case.... The suit does not make that allegation (that Democrat applications were thrown out). The Democratic Party did not need to alter ballot applications because the forms it had mailed to voters included all the needed information." The New York Times and the New York Post simply reported Gore's comment without noting its inaccuracy. Last Thursday the Wall Street Journal explained why Republicans alone were given access to absentee ballot applications in Seminole County, revealing a key detail omitted from almost all coverage of the case before or since: "The controversy centers on Florida's requirement that applications for absentee ballots contain voter identification numbers. Both parties sent out many applications with these numbers already filled in by computer. But software error caused the omission of numbers from some sent out by the Republicans.... there was no similar problem on applications mailed out by the Democrats."