Posted on 07/09/2006 6:34:46 AM PDT by psychopuppy
Charge: Bush Stole Mexican Election
Is it Florida redux?
It's not clear whether the Mexican election, now certifying Felipe Calderon of the ruling conservative National Action Party (PAN), will turn into a crisis like America witnessed in Florida after the 2000 election.
Already the two elections have one thing in common: left-wingers are claiming George Bush stole the election.
And yes, that includes the Mexican election.
Then on July 3, in an article titled "Grand Theft Mexico" that appeared on guardian.co.uk, Palast wrote this: "As in Florida in 2000, and as in Ohio in 2004, the exit polls show the voters voted for the progressive candidate. The race is too close to call. But they will call it – after they steal it."
Palast says that the FBI, acting under the guise of counter-terrorism, had obtained Mexico's voter files through a contract with information broker ChoicePoint, the database company whose list Jeb Bush used in 2000 to "scrub" voters from voter rolls.
"The disenfranchisement of these voters cost Al Gore the presidency," declares Palast.
ChoicePoint of Alpharetta, Ga., says that it returned or destroyed its Mexican files when it learned that collecting voter information violated Mexican law.
Says Palast: "It's impossible to know whether the FBI destroyed its own copy…or whether these were then used to illegally assist the Calderon candidacy."
No matter, the word is out, Bush "Floridized" the Mexican election.
2. Canadian Premiere: Al Gore's Hot Air
Al Gore is in for the cold shoulder should he ever pay a visit to the oil and gas rich Canadian province of Alberta.
"I don't listen to Al Gore in particular because he's a Democrat, and not only that, he's about as far left as you can go," says Ralph Klein, the province's Conservative premier.
He was reacting to Gore's comments in Rolling Stone that processing oil sands is a huge waste of energy that also harms the landscape of Western Canada.
"For every barrel of oil they extract there, they have to use enough natural gas to heat a home for four days…It's truly nuts. But you know, junkies find veins in their toes. It seems reasonable to them because they've lost sight of the rest of their lives."
Gore's remarks had Klein, who recently returned from a trip to Washington to promote Alberta's oil and gas industry, seeing red.
"I don't know what he proposes the world to run on," the premier retorted. Maybe hot air."
BUSH'S FAULT
That remote control machine Rove has must be pretty cool.
Well if Bush stole it, then brace yourself for another onslaught of illegal Mexican immigrants.
So, the secret is out about Bush's Baked Beans?
For someone the press has dubbed so stupid he has done some amazing things.
People who fall into patterns like this prove they are truly insane.
Michael Moore shows Florida voter "scrub list" on reporter Greg Palast's computer. (photo: M.Pascarella)
Lies down with vermin.
Is he talking about "scrubbing" convicts and other illegal voters from the rolls?
Says Palast: "It's impossible to know whether the FBI destroyed its own copy…or whether these were then used to illegally assist the Calderon candidacy."
No evidence, therefore we'll just make stuff up. Typical "journalist".
Good point!
It would be an even worse onslaught if the leftie had won. Mexico reminds me of the time we bought a house in a nice neighborhood--large lots, well-kept houses, etc. Next thing we knew, a neighbor moved in a single-wide for her worthless son, and their yard started filling up with junked cars and we kept seeing cop cars there because of drugs and domestic violence. At least we could move (and we did, although we sold the house at a loss), but the US is stuck with these trashy neighbors.
The Mexican Prisident-elect has already endorsed illegal alien invasion by denouncing the wall.
They're just jealous that they don't have their own Karl Rove to throw mud at. (But they don't mind stealing ours.)
It's like don't make jokes with the seriously mentally ill. Yes, it's exactly like that.
More fodder for the ants.
El Gore strikes again!
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