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

To: sandintoes who wrote (664256)	12/6/2004 11:38:09 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Gary Wills used to have a fairly good reputation but it's heading south. "Gary Wills, in his new book on Thomas Jefferson and slavery, accuses Jefferson of winning the election of 1800 by capturing the votes of states in which the slaves were counted as 3/5 persons, a device which padded the Congressional and therefore Electoral College representation of the slave states. He seems to find this comparable in some way to Bush’s “blitzkrieg of lawyers” who helped steal the 2000 election. Wills’s language is not accidental. Just as critics of Israel’s policies love to diminish Israel, by analogizing Israel’s behavior to apartheid South Africa or the Nazis, Wills’s use of the word “blitzkrieg” is designed to suggest that Bush and his fascist-like right wing hordes stole the recent election.