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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (123852)	1/26/2001 3:37:49 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"The big difference I always saw between Al Gore and the Bushes, father and son, is that the Bushes were always much better at personally distancing themselves while they sent their guys in with baseball bats to kneecap the opposition" That is your opinion. Mine is that the Bush's are honest and honorable people, and Al Gore is not. He is only about 10% as dishonest and deceitful as his old boss, but dis-honest none the less. If you can't trust someone, what difference does it make what the say they will do? btw, politics is a dirty business. Both sides do stuff that bothers me, but the Bush's do far less. I hope you give GWB a chance. I should restate something so you understand my p.o.v. better. I don't think it drags the country into the toilet to expose voting irregularities. This case was a perfect example of many things that should be changed for the better. When you do it in the context of how Al Gore did it with Jesse Jackson whipping up racial tensions, launching smear campaignes on anyone who didn't feel the laws should be changed the way he does, and with his army of lawyers looking for any way to take the election whether by the PBC thing, selective counts, suppressing military votes while digging for others, attempting to influence electoral voters, etc, etc, etc. it is disgusting. Our country just got an excellent lesson in how to whine and squeel and complain to get their way (which Americans already do way too much of) when they could have seen an example of statesmanship (similar to Ashcroft conseeding to a dead person) and fixed some problems for the next go around. Al Gore got what he deserved, and he will have trouble the next time if he can even try again. "Do you really think that 10,000 people left the voting lines because they called the election 10 minutes early" I do not know. Do you? If GWB would have even gotten a few hundred more votes it would have been helpful. I certainly think it made a difference in the popular vote, which the dems trot out with every other sentence, it seems.