One could also suggest that what the Supreme Court did was criminal (as a matter of fact there are a few books that deal with this - one by Alan Dershowitz). The system only works completely when the individual branches of government heed the boundaries. Personally, I still think that Bush probably still would have gotten in (as the real remedy was for Congress to step in and they were controlled by the Republicans) but it troubles me to see that the court did what they did.
Howie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:50 PM Subject: RE: Bush Wins! > Well, yes, but ... > > If you count the votes they way Gore wanted the votes counted, Bush wins. > > If you counted the votes the way they should have been counted (all of the > votes, both under and over and this chad and that chad, etc.), then Gore > wins. > > But the bottom line is, the system worked. We had a contested election. One > branch of the government made a decision about how the outcome should be > decided and that led to an eventual declaration of a winner. There was no > civil war, no coups, no civil unrest (at least of the kind that leads to > death and destruction). Yes, one could make the case that there were flaws > in the system, that there were some possible this or possible that in the > political hanky-panky realm, but in the end, we had a smooth transition of > power, which is the most important thing we could ask for. > > H. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
