What follows are a pair of comments I submitted to the Contra O'Reilly blog. This was back before the proprietor, Willis Hart, banned me from further comment on 8/30/2012.
These two comments concern the fact that Al Gore was elected president of the United States by the American people following the conclusion of voting in November of 2000. Gore won the popular vote by 543,895 votes (50,999,897 votes for Gore versus 50,456,002 votes for bush).
And, as it turns out, Gore won the popular vote in Florida as well, which would have given him the state (and its electoral college votes). If only the Conservative Supreme Court justices had not violated the Constitution and circumvented the will of the people by stopping the recount and anointing bush (Justice Stevens: Bush v. Gore Decision Violated Constitution).
See 2nd comment below for info concerning Al Gore winning by carrying FL... when the votes were properly counted.
When a complete recount was done it was found that Gore won. Here's a book on the topic:
The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President by Vincent Bugliosi and Gerry Spence.
Bugliosi says, "On December 12th, 2000, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to the recounting of presidential votes in Florida, thus assuring that George W. Bush would win the election. This action by the Court's majority ... was a "judicial coup d'tat" that stole the election from U.S. citizens and simply handed the presidency over to the Court's guy, a conservative Republican like themselves. It was also treasonous, asserts Bugliosi... the five justices are "criminals in the very truest sense of the word"...
This description of what occurred is one I agree with completely.
Robert Parry, writing for Consortium News said, "Counting fully punched chads and limited marks on optical ballots, Gore won by 115 votes. With any dimple or optical mark, Gore won by 107 votes. With one corner of a chad detached or any optical mark, Gore won by 60 votes. Applying the standards set by each county, Gore won by 171 votes".
SWTD Tags: Al Gore.
What is done becomes history. This is old history.
ReplyDeleteThis history (of a stolen presidential election) is significantly less ancient than the history of the Civil War... yet Les never once commented on oldness re the many many posts his (former?) buddy Willis posted on the topic (defending the South re the "war of northern aggression"/North responsible for slavery/North forced succession re cotton tariffs/war not fought over slavery/Lincoln evil racist corrupt warmonger/etc). Not ONCE did Les refer to that topic as "old history".
ReplyDeleteIt is old history as well. The war of 1812 older and the war for independence older yet.
ReplyDeleteMy comments with respect to the war between thr states were historical perspective. Perhaps you disagree? So what?
With respect the Bush/Gore, talk about all you like. Refer to t as very recent history if you like. Debate what coulda, shoulda been, might even make for interesting discudsion. A side from the obvious.
Time for dinner.
What is the obvious?
DeleteDinner.
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