Legacy - "Bush Should NEVER Have Become President" In The First Place!

[kpete]

Bush's Legacy -- A Flawed Election

By Craig Crawford | January 13, 2009 6:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (94)

The tragic course of George W. Bush's presidency began with what might have well been one of the great accidents in American history -- his flawed election. It is difficult to find a more dramatic example of why voting matters.

The Bush team learned how to cut corners in the 2000 election, avoiding a final recount of Florida's challenged ballots by going to the United States Supreme Court to stop it. In many ways that experience produced an attitude that any obstacle, even the Constitution itself, can be circumvented with the right set of machinations.

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Gore would have been declared the winner under statewide rules that Florida later developed for evaluating questionable ballots. That was the conclusion of The Orlando Sentinel, one of the participants in the consortium study. But those rules were not in effect in 2000 when the standards varied from county to county, so it cannot be said for sure that Bush would have lost if the Supreme Court had allowed a statewide recount.

The bottom line is that more Florida voters tried to vote for Gore than voted for Bush. There is a real chance that Bush should never have become president.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/bushs-legacy-a-flawed-election.html

[blm]

1. Bush wouldn't have been ABLE to run for president if a few powerful Dems hadn't protected Poppy

and his cronies from the many outstanding matters in his IranContra, BCCI and CIA drugrunning operations that deserved serious jail time.

[WhiteTara]

2. very true!

not to mention that Poppy pardoned them all.

[blm]

3. not all...more matters came out after those pardons...and CIA drugrunning report was 1996.

That report should have reopened IranContra and BCCI in earnest.

[WhiteTara]

4. yes, you are quite right on that

I think that the Mena airport part of the story ended that trail.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. and they will protect jr....

better start getting ready for jeb :(

[ladjf]

6. Thanks, Supreme Court and the others who stole the election. nt

[Cleita]

7. Historians, I believe, will note this period as a time when we were

ruled by a ruthless bloc of international corporatists, many under the aegis of the Project For a New American Century, who had staged a coupe with the aid of the United States Supreme Court to install their puppet government. Only because the people didn't allow the co-opting of our election system, it was through extraordinary efforts were we able to get a legitimately elected President back in power in 2009. How our future history will be written about will be up to us to make Congress and the White House turn this around in the next terms for both. Hopefully, something will be done about those Supremes too who handed our nation over to these criminals.