Hey you know Bush claims he based his whole foreign policy on Sharansky and even Sharansky said PA election are not authentic!
But President Bush has accepted the Palestinian elections as being legitimate and good enough. You know when a child is first learning to walk - their parents praise them - they don't say things like -"hey that's no genuine walking" or - "you call that walking?" etc.
The elections in the Palestinian territories are acceptable - nothing to write home about - but good enought for now.