December 13, 2000

9:17 AM

Bush apparently wins...and the New York Times is apparently speechless. 54k
(The original page has already changed; please forgive the link to the image on my site.)
posted by Mo Nickels (15 comments total)

Here's someone else who appears speechless. "Gore to call it quits". All I can say is.....it's about time.
posted by 120degrees at 9:43 AM on December 13, 2000

amen brother.
posted by tiaka at 9:58 AM on December 13, 2000

Hey, Mo. You forgot to close your FONT tag, so every post on the homepage shows up teeny in Netscape. Allow me:
posted by waxpancake at 10:20 AM on December 13, 2000

You guy's (US) we're better off not knowing.

posted by cburton at 10:39 AM on December 13, 2000

Aaargh. I kept telling myself, "Close the font tag... not all browsers will do it for you..."
posted by Mo Nickels at 10:41 AM on December 13, 2000

Here we go with four years of the Fraudulent Monkey Puppet President.

Ah well, at least he'll be getting out of Austin. (Hey, I'm trying to look on the bright side).

It'll be fun watching him fail. The economic happy-bubble is going to burst, and we'll all get to blame him. Weeha, these will be Interesting Times.

The very nation itself is experiencing severe chills at the news. Heh.
posted by beth at 10:46 AM on December 13, 2000

Hail to the Thief!

All the analysis I’m reading/listening to is saying how disenfranchised voters — who turn out to be mostly minorities — stood the most lose if the recount was struck down. So, while Bush ran on a “compassionate conservative” platform, in the end, he fought against voters rights and pissed off a voting block he wanted to invite to the party.

Gore’s concession speech tonight could set the tone for those voters. I don’t think we’re going to just hear the standard “get behind the winner” line. He may also say something about counting votes, and the fact that just enough of his votes weren’t counted.
posted by capt.crackpipe at 11:21 AM on December 13, 2000

And don't let us forget there's still Tecumseh's Curse. Not that I personally want to see Bush die in office, but you have to admit the track record of presidents born on a zero year isn't very good, and the environment here in the US is ripe for such an action. Lotsa lunatics out there. A wee bit over half the registered voters who actually voted really didn't want Bush, if you look at the popular vote. Some of them actually take the second ammendment of the constitution a bit too seriously.

Maybe it was a good thing, for Gore at least, that he didn't get the job after all.
posted by ZachsMind at 11:25 AM on December 13, 2000

Rat Bastards. Thanks Nader!
posted by internook at 11:46 AM on December 13, 2000

Bah, The new boss same as the old boss.
posted by john at 12:03 PM on December 13, 2000

Bush sez: "Democracy bad! Kangaroo courts good!!!!"
posted by Mr. skullhead at 12:24 PM on December 13, 2000

Now taking applications for a vast left-wing conspiracy.
posted by trox at 1:06 PM on December 13, 2000

Get over it.
posted by Mick at 1:10 PM on December 13, 2000

Left-wing? Perhaps you mean ther Green consipracy, because both the neo-liberals and the Republicans are status-quo conservatives.
posted by capt.crackpipe at 1:47 PM on December 13, 2000

An observation-

I think it's funny how everyone (Bush, Gore, Jesse Jackson, etc.) have taken this issue and twisted it so much that we're (America) all so fragmented.

All of the current partisan/racial jargon of counts and recounts and re-recounts, voter discrimination is based on pending allegations and news articles based on slanted words of the parties involved. Regardless of the outcome the other side(s) is now driven so far to the brink of bitterness that their pride would never allow them to let it go.

I predict that we will never get the whole story on what happened because even if the clues were there to begin with the trail is now cold from being bungled by ALL involved.
posted by ooklah at 3:07 PM on December 13, 2000