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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (106970)	12/8/2000 11:37:41 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Nadine, you are starting to come around, though your bias, IMO, still shows. Winners don't request re-counts. Gore shouldn't engage in the "hypocritical" actions. Period. Say what you will about the stupid Fla. law and I'll probably agree so far as that general statement goes, but there is NO reason for Bush to engage in the same "hypocritical" actions that the loser here has. If he had done so, reasonable Republicans truly would be standing to rail against BOTH candidates. This is not the case. Not only is Bush right to fight Gore's true actions, but by not commiting similar actions, he rises above the "hypocritical" implications of them. This is perhaps why the public relations war is being won to date by Bush. Dan B

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (106970)	12/8/2000 11:47:10 PM
From: herringbone_100	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<Somehow I never heard Team Bush ask for full recounts.> why would he, when he had already won? <But Al Gore did offer to accept a full recount and Bush declined.> Algore didn't have the authority to 'offer' any such thing. it was a bluff and everyone knew it. <Team Bush had the same opportunity to ask for selective recounts where it would help them. They chose not to use it.> some might say he was taking the high road, leaving the low road of litigation to Algore <Had anyone impartial been running the show, a statewide recount of the undervote would have happened within two weeks of the election. Florida does a horrific job of counting the vote. > yes, therefore we are all held hostage to the horrificness. throw out the stupid fla. vote altogether... come what may. neither of these men should be president, the better man, the one who gave a darn for any hope of preserving an already divided nation, would have conceded long ago. neither candidate is that man. but any one with a shred of objectivity can see that Algore is the man most responsible for the electorama we are in. Bush would have conceded long ago were the situation reversed, and he would have been right to do so.