-- I LOVE it when the uninformed say things like this.
It is obvious they are simply repeating what they have been told and since it is what they wanted to hear, never bothered checking for themselves to see if it was true.
I enjoy providing them with actual facts. For example:
The Bush/Gore results in FL in 2000 were not 'rigged.' That has been proven time and time again.
After the election Time, Newsweek, the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, US News and World Report, Reuters, the AP, UPI, ABC, NBC and CBS - even the BBC - all paid to have independent recounts of the FL ballots.
Some 30 different independent recounts were done.
Each and every single one said that Bush won fair and square.
Repeat: Every single solitary recount done by those independent groups CONFIRMED THAT BUSH WON THE ELECTION FAIR AND SQUARE.
Sorry to interject facts here, but someone had to....
The most humorous part is that if Gore had won his home state of TN, then he would have won the election and the FL count would not have mattered.
How pathetic is it that a VP of one of the most popular Presidents in history, during a time of prosperity and economic growth
could
not
carry
his
own
home
state
The Founding Fathers rightfully ensured that the popular vote did not decide who the President would be.
They knew it mean that the most populace states would carry the most power and influence in government and that that would be a travesty.
If you actually thought about what you were calling for, it would mean that during eleciton time politicians would focus almost solely on CA, NY, FL and the other most populace states of the Union and two-thirds of the states (and their citizens) would be ignored completely.
A half a dozen states would be swamped with money and the incumbent (of whatever party was in power) would ensure gov't funding, etc. would saturate those states.
Why worry about N.D. when there are a dozen counties in CA alone that have a population that is larger than that of the entire state of ND.
Same with SD, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, etc. etc. etc.
As far as George Bush being one of the worst President's in history, let's take a quick look at the one he took over for.
Under Clinton's watch there were terrorist attacks in Oklahoma City, the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia (where American forces lived), the USS Cole, and US embassies Tanzania and Kenya.
The 9/11 bombers also spent the last three years of Clinton's Presidency living and training in the United States with impunity.
If Mr. Clinton had done his job in addressing these attacks, 9/11 would not have happened.
And let us take a look at our current President, shall we?
- He said that the amount of debt Bush added to the Deficit was "inexcusable, unjustifiable, and unAmerican."
He promised to cut the Deficit in half during his first term, but then went on to add more to the Deficit in three years than Bush added in a full eight years.
This although he had a Dem House and Senate during his first two years.
- He promised that his 'shovel ready' $780 Billion jobs bill would ensure unemployment would not go beyond 8%.
After passage unemployment show up to 10%, spent over 20 months above 9%, and 40-plus months above 8%.
He promised unemployment would be at 5.6% right now. How did that work out?
- For every person that has found a job since he took office, 75 have gone on food stamps/Welfare.
There are currently fewer people in America's workforce today than the day he took office.
NEVER ONCE was unemployment as high under Bush as it has been under Obama.
In 1996 Nancy Pelosi stated that unemployment reaching 5.6% under Bush was PROOF of his failed Presidency, and that unemployment being that high was "inexcusable." She also stated that the buck always stops at the President regardless of the party.
"Shockingly," she is no longer making that claim.....