"Well, I would say that in the year 2000 the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process. There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president. He received the most votes nationwide and in my opinion he also received the most votes in Florida. And the decision was made, as you know, by a 5-4 vote on a highly partisan basis by the US Supreme Court. I would say in 2000 there was a failure. The year 2004 is hard to grade. I don't have any detailed information about what actually went on in Ohio. If Ohio had gone one way or the other it would have changed the outcome of the election. And the only thing that I know about Ohio was that there's general consensus, that the secretary of state of Ohio, who was responsible for the administration of elections was highly partisan in his public approach and perhaps even in his private administration but I don't know about that."
http://www.american.edu/media/speeches/carter.htm
Disclaimer: I'm not an American, so do not know how liked Jimmy Carter actually is, but I don't reply on Fox for my dose of world news, and many respected UK journalists/news agencies were quite open in their opinion that Bush actually lost the 2000 election.
Yeah really! Many of us are too smart to graduate from an Ivy League University and be elected President, twice. What's even smarter is to be elected twice, having only won one election.
2 Years ago I bought a paper shop in the UK. Everyday, when I see the covers of the tabloids, I get more and more depressed about the state of the British press. ( possible excepting the Times and the Guardian. Or Private Eye;-) )
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, because actors in a TV programme don't deliberately face the camera more often than the general public do with CCTV.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/19/1452244
Sorry, you lose at spelling.
Most informative, interesting AND funny F.P. Pretty much sums up the whole issue too.
Nah - he typed it. I wanna hear him 'say' it.
>> Wrinkles nose in disgust at above post.
Wooosh!!
"Well, I would say that in the year 2000 the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process. There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president. He received the most votes nationwide and in my opinion he also received the most votes in Florida. And the decision was made, as you know, by a 5-4 vote on a highly partisan basis by the US Supreme Court. I would say in 2000 there was a failure. The year 2004 is hard to grade. I don't have any detailed information about what actually went on in Ohio. If Ohio had gone one way or the other it would have changed the outcome of the election. And the only thing that I know about Ohio was that there's general consensus, that the secretary of state of Ohio, who was responsible for the administration of elections was highly partisan in his public approach and perhaps even in his private administration but I don't know about that."
http://www.american.edu/media/speeches/carter.htm
Disclaimer: I'm not an American, so do not know how liked Jimmy Carter actually is, but I don't reply on Fox for my dose of world news, and many respected UK journalists/news agencies were quite open in their opinion that Bush actually lost the 2000 election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron#The_Mellotr on_in_popular_music
That was hard to find.
Don't worry - I won't. Imagine a Beowolf cluster of 'em though!
Sorry - wrong. Step 3 is clearly - Profit! As for step 2 . . .
Will The Empire strike back?
Yes, you're right. I'll stay right here with Auntie Aubrey to comfort me. Thank you. Mmmm . . . lard.
Although Autechre and Aphex Twin are two of my favourite artists, I still found that very funny. Thanks ! Do I need to get out more ?
2 Years ago I bought a paper shop in the UK. Everyday, when I see the covers of the tabloids, I get more and more depressed about the state of the British press. ( possible excepting the Times and the Guardian. Or Private Eye ;-) )
I was gonna say that one.
Until I saw that you had.
At least I wasn't trying for 1st post.