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Bush lost that election. It's admitted by everyone except right-wing nuts that if the Florida recount had been continued in all districts, and not just in those which Gore's people wanted to have a recount, Gore would have won. What Bush won was his case in the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the recount, with a decision that was clearly made on political and not legal grounds.

It really bothers me that the Western press still routinely writes about Bush's "winning" the 2000 election. That's just an instance of the special treatment that the U.S. routinely gets in the Western media. The U.S. is an "advanced" country, so it is a priori impossible for a candidate to be placed in the White House through the theft of an election.

A bomb, H bomb, Minuteman / The names get more attractive / The decisions are made by NATO / The press call it British opinion -- The Three Johns

by Alexander on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 05:16:44 PM EST
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An honest description of 2000 is that we had a judicial Coupe-de-Etat and have been ruled by a criminal junta since then.  Of course such honesties dare not be uttered in polite company or on corporate broadcast "news".
by Geonomist on Sun Apr 22nd, 2007 at 09:29:42 PM EST
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