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

To: sunshadow who wrote (108205)	12/9/2000 4:43:36 PM
From: sunshadow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If Florida gets modern, tamper proof voting equipment, purges completely (with appropriate oversight) the voting rolls, tightens up voting day procedures / absentee voting procedures... the republicans will never lose again... Same goes for the nation as a whole...

To: sunshadow who wrote (108205)	12/9/2000 4:45:47 PM
From: JBTFD	Respond to of 769670

Yes, I'm so glad us democrats have complete control over the judicial system. Nice cop out...

To: sunshadow who wrote (108205)	12/9/2000 4:56:49 PM
From: peter a. pedroli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

well while all of this florida bullshit has been going on, the Bill & Al show has brought down another Israeli government. not bad for peace in Billy's time he got one PM assassinated and brought 2 others to early elections. i hope the liberal DEMS on this board are ready to bleed for their BOY and his foreign policies. it looks like BB is coming back but i would love to see Ariel Sharon come to POWER just so i could listen to all of the squealing coming from all the fair minded DEMS on these boards. hug your kids, you soccer moms its going to be a very violent decade. Israel's Barak Says He'll Resign By Dan Perry Associated Press Writer Saturday, Dec. 9, 2000; 3:20 p.m. EST JERUSALEM –– Israel's beleaguered Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Saturday he would resign, triggering elections that he termed "a referendum on peace" within two months. "There are those who doubt the mandate I received from the citizens of Israel," Barak said in a televised address to the nation. "Tomorrow I will advise the president of my resignation (and) in 60 days we will go to special elections for prime minister." In his announcement, Barak made clear that he would be a candidate for re-election. The move appeared aimed at preventing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who currently holds a two-digit lead over Barak in most polls – from running against him. Netanyahu is not a member of parliament, as Israel's complex election law requires candidates to be under such circumstances. Barak said he would support a proposal to change the electoral law to enable anyone to run – although it was unclear if such reform would be possible in the short time left before the election. It also was unclear whether Barak's resignation would supersede existing plans to hold broader balloting for parliament as well. An early election bill passed the first of three readings last month and the vote was expected by May. In the past, it has been speculated that Barak would make a major effort to reach some sort of peace agreement with the Palestinians before an election, and polls suggest that without such an achievement his chances of re-election would be extremely slim. Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian parliament, suggested it would be difficult to conclude a deal under such a speedy timetable. "I don't think there is any possibility to reach a peace agreement within this period," Qureia said. He said the coming 60 days appeared to be a "time out" from the peace process. Barak told reporters he would continue seeking ways to restart talks with the Palestinians but that he could not "promise anything." He said he believed that most members of parliament did not truly want elections and suggested the plan to hold legislative elections could be scrapped. But the legislative vote could go ahead on the same day as the vote for prime minister if the Knesset decided to dissolve itself, he said. Barak trounced Netanyahu 18 months ago in a vote that he perceived as giving him a mandate for peace. However, parties supporting significant concessions to the Palestinians did not win a commanding majority in parliament and Barak's coalition was wobbly from the outset. Right-wing and religious parties abandoned Barak's coalition ahead of the Camp David summit last summer and have excoriated him since then for going too far in concessions – even though Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rejected the offers as inadequate. Barak's popular support has plummeted in the two months since fighting broke out. The vast majority of the 309 people killed have been Palestinians – but Israelis' sense of security has been badly battered as well, and many people have lost faith in the peace process. A poll in the Maariv daily showed Netanyahu ahead of Barak by 45 to 27 percent – suggesting fully half of Barak's voters in the last election had deserted him. The poll of 1300 Israelis, which had an error margin of 3.5 percentage points, showed current opposition Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon holding only a slim lead over Barak. Barak's move was widely viewed as an effort to ensure that he runs against Sharon and not Netanyahu, who resigned his Knesset seat after his election defeat. When a prime minister resigns, triggering elections for prime minister but not for parliament, Israeli law requires any candidates to be members of parliament. Danny Naveh, a Likud member close to Netanyahu, said he expected the prime minister to honor his commitment to change the law to enable Netanyahu to run. But Naveh insisted that in any case, any "Likud leader will defeat the prime minister of Israel, and we will revert Israel to what we all hope will be a road of peace with security