Stephanopoulos: Candidate Not Wrong to Say Bush Stole Election

In a radio interview Wednesday morning, ABC's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos defended a claim by one of the Democratic Party presidential candidates that President Bush stole the 2000 election, saying it was "a reasonable inference" based on the evidence.

Stephanopoulos was asked to respond to a comment by former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, who told Sen. Joe Lieberman during the party's May 3 presidential debate: "We need to pursue opportunities for individuals to vote, instead of making it a high hurdle that they have to leap. And in all cases, make certain that we never again allow for the stealing of an election, as happened with you and, and Senator Gore."

Asked why, as the debate's moderator, he didn't challenge Moseley Braun when she made the erroneous claim, Stephanopoulos told radio host Don Imus that the debate rules didn't allow him to follow up.

But in the next breath the objective newsman insisted that Bush really didn't win the state of Florida legitimately.

"I believe that Al Gore got more votes both in, obviously the popular vote," insisted the "This Week" host, "and if you count all the votes in the state of Florida, Al Gore would have had more."

When Imus pointed out that investigations by numerous media organizations failed to turn up compelling evidence that Gore won more Florida votes than Bush, the former Clinton spokesman countered, "To not believe [that Gore beat Bush], you'd have to believe that 30,000 elderly Jewish voters in South Florida voted for Pat Buchanan.

The Democrat spinmeister-turned-ABC newsman then explained that while he disagreed that the election was deliberately stolen by Bush, he didn't think the claim was unreasonable.

"It doesn't mean that George Bush stole the election," he told Imus. "I don't think he did. But it's just this. I just think it's a reasonable inference."

Ah ah , not wrong? Then what? Traitorous, seditious and criminaly liable?

It's all about politics and sex redux (sarcasm)

Of course Stephanopoulos now has proven himself to belong to the same scum that cares not for what they say. My, the American people may be stupid, but not that stupid. They know OJ is a murderer and that Clinton is not innocent of rape and forcing himself on women,

and they know that dims and Staphilocopoolofpus are scum who do not care, end of story.

Actually, I do.

Quite independently of emphasis.

When one teaches 70 students in a class--ESL--AND they NEED to learn to read all CAPS--AND those in the back of the class read all caps easier than lower case . . .

AND given that I have my LCD monitor about 3.5-4 feet from my head where I sit in my recliner/rocker--ALL CAPS ARE WONDERFUL for 56 year old eyes which have read and read and read tons of books in small print over the years.

Besides, that issue was worth 'yelling' about, IMHO!

BTW, I suppose when I put my shrink hat on, I can sort of empathize with folks who are CAPS averse.

BUT TO ME, it seems like a somewhat silly mental convention we've 'acquired' on the net.

We've DECIDED it = YELLING.

When actually, we COULD HAVE JUST AS EASILY decided it was a kindness to old eyes or a curious but fun idiosyncracy for some or . . . . whatever.

It's not as though our society lacks WORTHY things to get annoyed over--e.g.

her unroyal lowness,
her hideous heinous--
Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette
de Fosterizer de Reno-suckface
de Marx-idolizer de Beijing-agent
de Infanticide-glorifier
de Poopy-flinger de Sade

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now HER EVILNESS is REALLY worth yelling and stamping one's feet over--at the very idea she'll ever get near the White House again!

It is amazing how these Dems think. They actually argue:

a) Bush is to dimwitted to be President, he is moron, who w/o his daddy's help, could not function in life above a simple working class level. and

b) Bush successfully masterminded the greastest political theft in the history of the USA, in spite of the best efforts of literally thousands of his intellectual superiors, to prevent this occurance.

And they say it with a straight face.

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