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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (127700)	2/17/2001 4:23:44 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Tom - I am actually engaged in a dialogue with someone on your side of the aisle who seems sincerely to want to discuss intelligently the issues raised by last November's presidential election. Something I know you cannot relate to. I can understand why most Bush supporters prefer to ridicule and belittle those who are genuinely outraged by the tactics that put Dubya in the White House over the popular will of the American people. After all, there is no upside for Dubya and his supporters to the stories that are going to start coming out about this election now that the dust is settling: a fair and studied analysis of the Florida ballots (rather than a rush to ignore what they said), the tactics used by the Jeb Bush/Katherine Harris GOP election machine to tilt the vote in Dubya's favor and disenfranchise 1 out of every 6 black voters and thousands of elderly Jewish voters in South Florida and Duval County, and then the post election tactics used to shut down a process of fairly determining who really won despite all of those pre-election tactics, which continues even after the result is final. It's an ugly story, but rest assured it's coming, and neither bombing Iraq, nor expending a high level of wasted congressional energy on investigating a bunch of pardons by a former president which nobody truly cares about, nor all of the right wing propaganda in America (and there is a TON of that), is going to stop the truth from coming out, and Dubya from being held responsible for the parts that reflect poorly (or worse) on him and his campaign. But in the meantime, enjoy this right wing orgy of calling the 200,000 voters of Florida who were disenfranchised in this election "stupid" -- they are going to vote Jeb right out of a job in 2002, and then his dim-witted brother right out of a job he didn't earn in the first place in 2004. By the way, in your picture, the guy looking at that ballot was the republican member of the Broward County Canvassing Board (who did not see one hanging chad that he thought should count as a vote). Good choice. MST