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

To: DOUG H who wrote (122752)	1/20/2001 8:50:49 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 769667

Why don't you guys wait until ALL the counties are counted by the Herald's independent auditors, and then we'll see what might have happened if Dubya hadn't taken the position that it was unconstitutional to use the same level of scrutiny in a Presidential election that you would use in a race for County Commissioner. Every time one county or one particular observer says Bush gained votes somewhere, you guys post it like it tells the whole story -- just like you said during November that Florida had already recounted all the votes 3 times. As your own story points out, the machine counts NEVER told the whole story. There are 67 counties in Florida -- when all of the undervotes and overvotes are counted in ALL 67 counties, then (and only then) will we have some idea of who would have won had Bush not adopted an immoral legal strategy to steal this election, with the support of radical conservatives on the USSC. Please understand -- if Bush had won the election on election night fair and square, I'd be disappointed but that would be the end of it. The reason why I will never forget, and why millions will rub this in his face for the next 4 years, and go to the polls the next two federal elections with this burned into our consciousness, is that he did not win it fair and square at all -- it seems highly likely that he would have lost the election if he (or his right wing buddies on the Supreme Court) had allowed a completely legal manual recount to continue as contemplated under Florida law. He had a problem when he lost the popular vote by a half million votes. But that would have been fine had he won the electoral vote on the up and up. But what he did was more than "a problem" -- it reflected a blind lust for power so obscene that he actually argued to the USSC that fairness dictated that a manual recount provision under existing law be ignored as if it didn't exist, that we should thus ignore as much as thirty thousand ballots that might have clearly reflected voter intent (we know already that thousands of ballots which did reflect voter intent were not counted by the machine counts) and then expect us to accept that as a "fair" or "justice" outcome. Hail to the Thief - you people deserve him.