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

To: U Up U Down who wrote (103999)	12/7/2000 9:07:50 AM
From: U Up U Down	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Mr. Gore, while attempting a naked power grab, has been asking the country to believe he is on an Arthurian quest for absolute truth about the vote count--demanding a state of perfect knowledge that he maintains could be had if only we count fervently enough. By now, of course, this sounds disingenuous, with Mr. Gore waiting in hope that a judge will order predominantly Republican Seminole County to scrap a decisive number of votes for President-elect Bush by throwing out absentee ballots--ballots that do show the clearly marked will of thousands of voters. But the idea of extracting absolute truth of intent from ever closer scrutiny of each and every questionable chad was always peculiar, because it is not humanly possible. The closest we can come in such endeavors is to devise a uniform standard to provide a reasonable guess--something already provided in the initial count and recount. Yet Mr. Gore and his circle talked on and on about making sure that not one intended vote should go unheeded. As if anyone could be sure. Yet lots of Americans bought it. opinionjournal.com