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To: combjelly who wrote (446966)	1/12/2009 2:50:11 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573927

CJ, > There was no reason to believe that things were any worse in that transition than in past ones. So just pretend that what happened during the transition from Clinton to W is normal? I guarantee you that there would be a minor outrage if even one 'O' key ends up being stolen ... Tenchusatsu

To: combjelly who wrote (446966)	1/16/2009 12:29:49 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

>With the possible exception of the missing keys, it seems like it was about like any other transition including the one from Reagan to Bush We don't even know that the missing keys are true. The story started in the press in January 2001... it may be true, it may be false, maybe there's a shred of truth (a couple of people did it), but it was basically an oft-repeated urban legend without any confirmation in the press for a bit after January. Basically anyone who followed politics at the time would've heard about it and it was a very memorable story. The GAO questioned 78 members of the Bush transition team for the report a few months later. An indeterminate number of them (2? 20?) said they'd witnessed keyboards with a missing W. If you were to tell 78 people that were gathered in a particular place tonight over and over via the media over the course of a couple of months that they saw a space saucer tonight and half of the rest of the world that weren't there that night believed in it and chattered about it for months, on May 15th of this year you could ask those 78 people whether they saw a flying saucer that night and five of them would say they did. Maybe they saw the saucer, maybe they didn't (obviously we know there wasn't one). But a few of the people involved would have tricked themselves into believing it. And a whole bunch of maroons would put on tinfoil hats and SWEAR that the saucer really did appear and Rush would tell them that it had something to do with the Clintons... -Z