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In your first verdict, you admit that a complete count of absentee ballots might have changed the outcome of the popular vote -- then discard it as irrelevant and conjecture.

But, in your second verdict, you make the pronouncement that Al Gore would have won the popular vote, forgetting your admission in your first verdict. It also ignores the potential effect of entirely different campaign strategy to win the popular vote.

And would Gore have invaded Iraq? In his own words on 2002-01-12:

In 1991, I crossed party lines and supported the use of force against Saddam Hussein, but he was allowed to survive his defeat as the result of a calculation we all had reason to deeply regret for the ensuing decade. And we still do. So this time, if we resort to force, we must absolutely get it right. It must be an action set up carefully and on the basis of the most realistic concepts. Failure cannot be an option, which means that we must be prepared to go the limit. And wishful thinking based on best-case scenarios or excessively literal transfers of recent experience to different conditions would be a recipe for disaster.

In all fairness, by 2002-09-23, he had changed his tune somewhat:

I'm speaking today in an effort to recommend a specific course of action for our country which I believe would be preferable to the course recommended by President Bush. Specifically, I am deeply concerned that the policy we are presently following with respect to Iraq has the potential to seriously damage our ability to win the war against terrorism and to weaken our ability to lead the world in this new century.

I'm not going to pretend to be able to read Gore's mind, especially under circumstances that never happened. But, I think it's foolish to be certain that there would have been a different outcome.

it will generate research into highly articulated humaniform robots

Some of them have already ran for President!

That miserable failure is bank rolling with with all of his internet royalties.

Hey look another miserable failure just like groklaw.

Did the man supported by this miserable failure of a campaign have this in mind when he invented the Internet?

For once we have a real leader and the spineless, poll follower this miserable failure of a campaign hopes to elect.

Is this what that miserable failure had in mind when he invented internet.

Oh boo hoo, the rule of law, boo hoo.

Electronic voting machines are just going to be corrupted to help this miserable failure of a campaign.

Bush winning again is definetely a one up over this miserable failure of a campaign.

Electronic voting machines are just going to be corrupted to help this miserable failure of a campaign.

If thats the case then why is it news everytime the miserable failure these people are rooting for grows a beard.

How come we never hear about breakins there or at this miserable failure of a website.

It should be clear to any casual observer that when this miserable failure created the Internet, he intended for it to become the hot bed of pr0n and other vices that is today. I mean, the man's own wife wouldn't let him listen to music with the word fuck in it.

After all, that miserable failure invented Mozilla, right?

Remember when that robot ran for president? Now this miserable failure of a site comes along to draft him this year.

I would have expected a link to this site