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

To: jlallen who wrote (466479)	9/29/2003 3:49:37 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

No George Bush was not elected, he was selected. The court was spilt on ideological lines. Had the court been more liberal, it's likely that some redress of the following problems would have been observed: The Supreme Court did not address the fact that 60,000 black voters were purged from the rolls in Florida. The Supreme Court did not address the fact that the ballot in Palm Beach was improperly designed, leading to an additional 3,000 votes that would have been cast for Gore going to Pat Buchanan. The Supreme Court did not address the fact the military votes were counted incorrectly. Had those ballots that had been postmarked after the election, or even postmarked in the United States been rejected, according to the law, Gore would have won. This is all before the issues of antiquated voting machines, which were used primarily in areas of poor and black voters, are even taken into account. The Supreme Court never addressed any of these questions, they simply selected GWB as the 43rd President. If you say that Bush is the peoples choice then you are ignoring the facts. Bush became president by a supreme court decision. The facts are that if the election was held in a manner that reflected the people's wishes, Gore would have won. It's plain to see, that Bush is the 43rd President by a combination of luck, skill and deception that have never been seen before in this country. I do not believe that Bush was the peoples choice. The election was a sham. Thinking people know this to be the truth. Orca