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If only Florida had gone the other way
Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.
As President Bush’s years in the White House mercifully draw to an end, one wonders how different life might be had the 2000 presidential election in Florida turned out the other way. One can only surmise.
But, to begin with, Al Gore would have been president and the economic policies of the Clinton-Gore administration would have remained in place. Iraq would not have been invaded. The environment would have been at the forefront of national policies. Diplomacy would have been the major tool in our international relations. The nations of the world would still respect America as the torchbearer of freedom and democracy.
It is obvious that George Bush and Dick Cheney entered the White House with a secret agenda, an agenda that was to be reinforced with a big stick. That big stick was two-pronged — Republican control of Congress, which would do his bidding, and the world’s strongest and most advanced military force.
Tomes have been written about Bush’s bent toward early military action in Iraq. He embraced the policies of Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down economic theory. All of this while he sneered at those who claimed the world was headed for an environmental disaster due to the growing greenhouse phenomenon.
To ensure these policies were enforced, he shrouded the White House in secrecy, and decisions were passed through the office of Karl Rove, his political guru, for Rove’s stamp of approval.
Now that his tenure is drawing to a close, one wonders how different life in America and the world might have been had a President Gore been in the White House for the past eight years instead of President George
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Why is this unsigned? This letter nails it perfectly.
Looks like Florida may go the other way this time. But what's right. Stealing a challenged man's vote to get what you want? Read what's happening in Florida.
http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?s=9...
Terrorists flooding in to America unchecked. Saddam Hussein and the UN's "Oil for Fraud" programme enriching America's enemies. Osama BL with an office facing Central Park, NYC.
The rampant continuation of 1990s corporate accounting frauds and financial crimes unmatched in American history - until Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Maxine Waters and their ilk in Congress watered down the Mae/Macs" to force them to accept mortgages backed by child-support payments and unemployment checks as "income". If they can't win outright, da lib just cooks the books and undermines we all, so to speak.
Bogus global climate warming, err, I mean change bogs down the economy for the profit of nations other than America. Nations signing the Kyoto brainfart have come nowhere close to their "goals", especially the goal of the UN soaking up America's wealth to "spread the wealth around".
AIDS in Africa unaddressed.
And, too much that will be lost - da liberals haven't had their chance to give more of America away since 2000, "for a few seats more".
In short, 8 more years of being America, THE leader in the world who has made the world much, much safer and freer. 8 more years of freedom, instead of social communism, the love of America's enemies and the usual decline in every area that the Democrat Presidency always provides historically.
Um...NVMakz,
Twenty-nine terrorists flooded into America unchecked on George W. Bush's watch.
To the letter-writer, whoever you may be, the election in Florida DID turn out the other way. The five right wingers on the Supreme Court gave it to President Bush by imposing themselves on a case they had no business even hearing. The Constitution leaves it to the states to decide how they will apportion their electors and the Florida Supreme Court had already ruled on the case, in favor of Al Gore. Also, the US Supreme Court knew, whent they rendered their decision, that they were not basing that decision in law. The majority opinion warns future courts not to use it as precedent.
I know people like Makz and Nance and Neiman will say it's water under the bridge, get over it, sour grapes, you can't stand losing, etc., etc. But this decision was a usurpation of our rights and a despotic slap in the face to every American. The Supreme Court is supposed to be the impartial arbiter of the law and above politics. That's why we give the justices lifetime appointments. When they blatantly place their personal politics above the law, that means there is no law. That they did so in this case should scare the heck out of all of us, regardless of our party affiliations.
I agree, I wish Bush never was President...then this market crash would have been blamed on Democrats, raising taxes, increased spending, and regulation!
Um, "John":
"Twenty-nine terrorists flooded into America unchecked on George W. Bush's watch."
I do not believe you! Link it!
IF they exist, they're probably among the many terrorists caught and prosecuted by the Bush Administration. Those same terrorists liberals / ACLU hire lawyers for, demand American "rights" for and otherwise undermine America for!!
xxxxx
"To the letter-writer, whoever you may be, the election in Florida DID turn out the other way. The five right wingers on the Supreme Court gave it to President Bush by imposing themselves on a case they had no business even hearing. "
I guess you WANTED the FL SC to break their own state's laws in favor of Gore? THAT was the issue the SC decided on. Bush won FLA every way there was to win it, given the focus of Algore's thugs (denying oversea ballots of the military and other fascist crimes against our right to vote). Major news organizations hired a firm to go back and examine the ballots and counts and the different scenarios proposed as Gore LOST FL. Note the LACK of noise from the LMSM on the issue once it was verified that BUSH WON FLORIDA. IF Bush had not won FL, the lying liberal major media would STILL be woofing about it.
Read the truth.
The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago conducted the six-month study for a consortium of eight news media companies, including CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida...
The rest of your hyper-partisan take is therefore moot! Fun fiction to realize it had been debunked in 2001. Here you are in 2008, still behind the truth curve, so to speak.
Gore would have been a disaster especially after 9/11. Bush has been a much better POTUS than Gore would have been.
"The Supreme Court is supposed to be the impartial arbiter of the law and above politics. That's why we give the justices lifetime appointments. When they blatantly place their personal politics above the law, that means there is no law. That they did so in this case should scare the heck out of all of us, regardless of our party affiliations."
Will you be saying this IF Barry O packs the SC with liberals? Several SC Justices are in their 70s/80s. Doubt it very much.
JohnF, "Twenty-nine terrorists flooded into America unchecked on George W. Bush's watch."
Most of those thugs sneaked into the US on Clinton's watch.
Some of them even took flight training on Clinton's watch.
The original date of the attack was to be in 2000 and not 2001.
"The original date of the attack was to be in 2000 and not 2001."
Is that the latest spin? LOL.
this letter looks like the work of ralston.
anyway it is fun to blame everything on one guy is'nt it? our culture and self accountability could not have anything to do with this?
How convenient, Pat only chooses to attack the last point jfn32 made. What about the first 3, huh, can't dispute those. Those darn facts just keep getting in your way....
Because the other two were true, 'bot. Unlike you (e.g., the collective right wing 'bot "you"), I try not to whitewash any truth.
And my name is CLEARLY written on the screen. If you cannot use it, DO NOT address me.
That was kind of hypocritical of me, car_1. Simply because all you ever offer is snarky comments completely devoid of any substance shouldn't excuse my calling you a 'bot, especially when admonishing you on how you address me. I apologize.
Tokoloshe, "our culture and self accountability" includes BOTH parties, not just one.
I believe it is the republicans who have continually touted themselves as "the party of personal responsibility". And yet, all you ever hear from them is BLAME DEMS BLAME MINORITIES BLAME LIBS BLAME THE MEDIA blah blah blah.
I used to wonder how they reconciled that until I realized that nothing they do has to make sense, it just has to be in lockstep and has to blame someone other than themselves.
PatriciaLV, your apology is accepted. I, too, will offer an apology for addressing you as Pat. It wasn't meant as an insult in anyway.
A few points about me though. I am not Republican nor a Democrat. I am an Independent, but I do lean to the right. I can not stand either one of these candidates, period. I would write in my mentally challenged dog before voting for either candidates. I have stated that before. But for some reason if someone simply disagrees with one side they are automatically assumed to be on the other side.
And I am an independent who leans left. Obama wasn't my first choice, but the prospect of a McCain presidency ..... or OMG a PALIN presidency ..... is way too much to handle. Therefore, Obama will get my vote.
And strangely enough, the more I hear of and by him, the more I like him. Whatever.