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

To: calgal who wrote (162661)	7/20/2001 1:33:11 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Everything is coming up President Bush. BUT... Vacant liberal minds still gnash there teeth. McAuliffe Finally Concedes Bush Won Election. For most Americans, the 37 day Florida battle over who won last year's presidential election ended more than seven months ago, when then-Vice President Al Gore conceded to George W. Bush. But not Terry McAuliffe, who up until recently was boasting on national TV that media investigations of the Florida recount would show Gore was the real winner. Finally last night, the Democratic Party Chairman and longtime Clinton money man threw in the towel. But even then McAuliffe went down kicking and screaming, trying to wriggle off the hook as "Hardball" host Chris Matthews repeatedly pressed him on whether he was ready to give up the ghost. Here's the excruciating exchange between McAuliffe and Matthews: MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election, yes or no? McAULIFFE: What I see is there are a lot of problems... MATTHEWS: Yes or no? Do you concede this election? The vice president con... McAULIFFE: George Bush is president of the United States. MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election? McAULIFFE: We're going to move on. There's nothing I can do about the last election. MATTHEWS: You can't answer that, can you? This is a hard one, isn't it? McAULIFFE: Listen, Chris... MATTHEWS: You know, Hillary Clinton would never tell me whether her -- her spokesman would never whether she's a politician or not, or ambitious or not. Is this so hard to say? Do you, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, concede the presidential election at this point? It's now July of 2001. McAULIFFE: I will concede that George Bush is the president. But, Chris, what I... MATTHEWS: Will you concede he won the election? McAULIFFE: I will -- not willing to concede that we got 547,000 more votes, Al Gore did, and if all the votes were counted and we did not have all the issues of the Electoral College with the states, there were problems. Today, in the paper, six million votes were not counted. MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election like your candidate does, yes or no? McAULIFFE: George Bush is the president of the United States. MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election? McAULIFFE: I'm not fighting the last election. I'm conceding. MATTHEWS: I'm asking you a question. McAULIFFE: Yeah. Sure, I'll concede the last election. There's nothing I can do about it going forward. MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee