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Russell Meyer's avatar

Oh, I agree that Bush likely didn't win Florida; that the Supreme Court interfered with — short circuited —the process of determining the legitimacy of the vote count. Contrastingly, all of Trump's spurious court challenges after his loss were given consideration.

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TCinLA's avatar

Bush only "won" Florida because the Supreme Court stopped the recount.

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Peter Burnett's avatar

I recall disbelief.

While harboring for quite some time a strong mistrust for US justice, such blatant banana-republic-style interference with the democratic process by the country's highest jurisdiction seemed unbelievable.

The hubris, paranoia and gross incompetence of the Administration that followed defies belief, multiplying exponentially the damage inflicted on America by Al-Qaida at home and abroad, with effects in the Middle East and throughout the Old World that may last for centuries.

Oussama Ben Laden set out to cause lasting division throughout the world and died secure in the knowledge that he had manipulated America into delivering him victory beyond his wildest dreams.

A reality still misunderstood to this day by people, politicians, even the Pentagon, incapable of seeing 9/11 and the recent, even deadlier 12/7 attack on Israel for what they were: the deployment of strategic weapons to attain long-term objectives. Those with no sense of the long term are ill-matched against ruthless strategists, whether Islamists or the Chinese Communist Party.

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Marleen Colangelo's avatar

I totally remember that moment, when they stopped the count. The count probably would have elected Al Gore, but it would have taken many more days of counting. That ending of the count was a Republican Overtake. GW managed the rigging of becoming the fake winner. He was so determined, and then he and Dick Cheyney and Donald Rumsfeld (and a fourth Republican) got what they had planned to do, go after the Iranian oil. They did not succeed.

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Joy Cunningham's avatar

Bush v Gore was the point at which the Supreme Court lost all credibility and the GOP learned it could do as it pleased with no accountability

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Becky's avatar

Wolfowitz?

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Russell Meyer's avatar

Right!

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Mike Treworgy's avatar

I recall that Sandra Day O’Connor on her retirement that she was proud of her time on the court. Her only regret was the vote to give Florida to Bush.

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Joan Grabe's avatar

No, he did win when the vote was stopped by the Supreme Court. Other votes that were waiting uncounted after that decision were discarded. We cannot go outside procedures like dead lines and Supreme Court rulings to get the result we want. What we got was a disaster - Iraq War and general incompetence. I wonder why George W. Bush is mute in the face of this travesty ! And I am represented by Byron Daniels in Lee ( still!) County, Florida…………… and he is a shoe in next November.

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