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"Mark Cook" <mcook@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:9MLOb.58323$035.5552@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
> "Baxter" <lbax01.spamguard@baxcode.com> wrote in message
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> > Your source impeaches itself by bringing up the issue but not reporting
> the
> > resolution.
> >
> > Still, how do you account for the fact that your source also said:
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> You quoted an article that used the NORC, now the NORC is unreliable????

Seems to me you can't have it both ways - YOU are quoting NORC, yet they say
Gore won while you claim Gore lost.  Looks to me like you're cherry-picking.

>
> So I understand, under Florida Code, a vote cannot be thrown out if the a
> canvassing board can determine the intent of the voter. You have posted an
> article that says that it can determine the intent. IF they could
determine
> the intent, why couldn't the State of Florida?

Because Bush managed to block that determination.
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Kevin Phillips is no hotheaded bomb-thrower but a seasoned wise man with
deep roots in the Republican party. Nonetheless, his new book on the Bush
family is more incendiary than the Bill-Clinton-murdered-Vince-Foster books
so popular during the '90s. Unlike them, however, American Dynasty is not
sensationalistic and its claims are historically verifiable.

American Dynasty extends that analysis, centering on the family Phillips
calls "the House of Bush" and telling the story of four generations of
Bushes from World War I up to the ongoing Iraq conflict.

Phillips admits to being aghast at what he discovered: "[I]n examining two
Bush presidencies and a four-generation pursuit of national prominence and
power through an unusual lens -- one that highlighted elite associations,
recurring political practices, and dynastic ambitions -- I learned much
more, and I admit to being shocked at some of what I found. The result is an
unusual and unflattering portrait of a great family (in power, not morality)
that has built a base over the course of the twentieth century in the back
corridors of the new military-industrial complex and in close association
with the growing national security establishment. In doing so, the family
has threaded its way through damning political and armaments scandals and,
since the 1980s, faint hints, never more, of acts that in another climate
might have led to presidential impeachment."

But this issue is a sideshow to the main event, the depiction of the rise of
the Bush dynasty and how dynasties are antithetical to democratic systems.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/books/sho-sunday-phillips18.html

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The reality is quite simple: The Bush family -- and the Republican Party
leadership apparatus -- has contempt for democracy as in inconvenient
obstacle to achieving one-party rule in this great nation.

In his book, Phillips details the Bush family belief that they are a dynasty
destined to rule, regardless of voter preference. Their inner political
belief is essentially monarchical. However, Karl Rove and the late Lee
Atwater convinced father and son Bush that they needed to play the "cultural
populist" card in order to get within close enough distance to steal
elections. That's how you end up with a dauphin prince president who plays
the cowboy for the photo-ops but believes that he's king.

To the Democratic leadership who so easily "got over" the theft of election
2000, we say, never again.

Never again, will we let a regime with the false appearance of WASP piety
and integrity, a Third World attitude the totalitarian relationship between
government and corrupt business cronyism, and a cynical relationship with
religious fanatics who believe that they have a right to run America
according to THEIR fundamentalist vision of what THEY believe God wants,
never again will the Bush Dynasty make a mockery of democracy and be allowed
to spend our taxpayer dollars in dismantling our Constitutional government
brick by brick.
http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/01/edi04004.html