Conyers: Bush wasn’t given a mandate with election victory

[AtLiberty]

Bush wasn’t given a mandate with election victory

by John H. Conyers Jr.
May 10, 2005
Chicago Defender

http://www.chicagodefender.com/page/editorial.cfm?ArticleID=704

[fryguy]

1. no shit

51% isn't a friggin mandate

[AtLiberty]

2. Conyers is referring to election fraud...

[Vincardog]

3. Clearly

Better questions: was he just re-elected legitimately,NONONO

or was voter suppression and machine malfunction or malfeasance used to manipulate election results? YESYESYES

In other words, maybe these polls, rather than our broken election system, better reflect the true will of the people.

[cssmall]

4. Of course he is. . .

however, that being stated, election fraud is no easy ticket to for anyone to buy. That being said, let us ignore the perfect victory (one in which my wife said Bush knew he was going to win, he was too confident) and turn to a president that simply one barely over half the vote. In no time in which a president won by such a slim margain did that president attempt to push agenda so heavily. See Hayes and the end to the Reconstruction, which is a big issue that I have with why the south STILL lags behind (mainly because if the north would have actually seen education and equality of African-American workers, then they would have done something better, but they didn't). Now, I'm not saying it's Hayes' fault that the south is the way it is, I believe that the politicans from the south used his narow margain as a political tool. Much the same with Bush with the republicans.

In a recent article to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a very respected Arkansan civil rights lawyer took modern republican politicans to task for obviously having slept through 7th and 8th grade civics and history classes over the filibuster. Much is the same with Bush, he forgets that he's not actually in power. . . we've got the guys behind him to thank for that. And you can include the Saudis because just like George H W Bush, the House of Saud is in the Carlysle Group.

[helderheid]

5. it is a hard sell

Maybe a bumber sticker that reads: NEVER FORGET THE EXIT POLLS IN THE UKRAINE! (and in the USA)