Comments by Haywood Jablowmi

Aftermath

Finally, I have the opportunity to write about anything except the presidential un-election.  Thank God, I can actually expound upon something interesting again.  Finally, the Supreme Court has made it all so clear:  George W. Bush has managed to elude the facts, play fast and loose with the numbers, and come out the tarnished winner in this high-stakes card game.  

Basically, the Omnipotent Supremes, as they like to call themselves, have said the votes that were not counted for whatever reason, will not ever be counted, and the people who intended to vote are just out of luck.  Too bad, your rights are washing down the drain...so sorry.  OK, so they're not sorry at all.  The entire smelly process has been suspect from the beginning.  

Let's go back to the scene of the crime:  Election night, 

• The Networks are using sophisticated tracking and forecasting techniques to call the elections almost as soon as the polls close.  
• These are highly developed programs administered by professional statisticians.  The networks don't spare the expense.  If it takes millions of dollars to get an accurate prediction, they spend it, they have to to maintain their reputations...and they did.  
• But for some reason, the professionals were wrong...as the map of states began to fill red with some blue sections scattered about, the results for Florida showed the Vice President would likely take the state...and so 
• In a competitive rush, they hurried to be first to announce the news.  Then, inexplicably, the High-Dollar anchors had to reluctantly retract their reports.  
• For some reason, the returns from the Sunshine State were cloudy.  Suddenly, instead of triumph, Al Gore was looking at a race that was truly too close to call.  

Unfortunately, many ballots simply didn't get counted the first time around, much less on the rewind.  The reports later came to light that 

• Many voters claimed to have been confused by a complicated ballot, and therefore may have accidentally voted for the wrong candidate...
• Many people were actually turned away from the polls by elections officials who claimed it was too late, even though many of them were in line long before the deadline.  
• Or how about the situation of ballot manipulation by Republican election officials that was thrown out of court in a most unceremonious manner.  
• Or the fact that the entire election process in the Great State of Florida has been controlled from top to bottom, from Governor to Secretary of State, to Judges, and local elections officers by Republican party faithfuls.  

You,  my fellow Americans, are the victims of a huge organized swindle.  Your votes have been stolen.  Your voice in government has been subverted, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it because the US Supreme Court, in complete counterindication to it's charter has become a partisan body.  The majority of justices, who incidentally were appointed by Republican Presidents, simply cannot leave that out of the equation.  

Therefore, the fast talking lawyers for Mr Bush have finally run out the clock.  They've managed to maneuver and contort the legal remedies Mr. Gore should have been able to call upon, so that judges can make decisions without ever examining evidence, so that even though there is a huge cloud of dishonesty hanging over all their heads, the band will play all that much louder at the second Bush Inauguration Ball.  

Just one last thing:  Before you gloat too loudly, Republicans remember, your candidate was not the true choice of the American people..the POPULAR vote went for Gore, in excess of 300,000 votes...many times that of the difference that has been finagled in Fla..  His is a bastard victory, unloved by a very large portion of this diverse land.  

Why else would his legal team struggle so desperately to keep these votes from being counted properly.  If after a proper recount, Mr. Bush prevails, so be it.  He would be the legally elected candidate, and popularly accepted president.  Remember, if the will of the people were truly taken into account, the Network anchors would have never changed their predictions on Election night, the proper concession speech would have been gracefuly given, and the great division we're suffering today would not exist.  This has truly been a very sorry day for democracy.  

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