The Logic Off Topic list

>But I will just say I do have a problem when people try to paint
>black-and-white that it was a clear-cut election and implies that whichever
>person occupies the White House now is illegitimate (I say whichever because
>I have no doubt at all that if Gore won he would be treated to the same
>objections).


Well since you can't resist, what about the black Florida voters who were 
prevented from voting? What about the irregularities with the military 
ballots - allowing them without postmarks - but only in Republican 
counties. Ultimately it came down to the vote of one man - Justice 
Clarence Thomas - formerly most famous for his comments about Long Dong 
Silver and "Is that a pubic hair on your coke can?". Thats the guy who 
cast the deciding vote. 

And regarding Bush - the Arabs hate us/him because he has invited Sharon 
to the whitehouse twice but never invites Arafat at all - quite 
differently than Clinton who seemed to like Arafat. The Euro's on the 
other hand, hate us because he/we wouldn't sign the kyoto agreement. 
Mexicans hate us because we won't let all of their citizens who have 
snuck in become instant citizens (again as we already did in the 1980's). 
The Greeks hate us because we bombed Yugoslavia. Japanese hate us because 
we bombed them. The French hate us because we saved thier country from 
the 3rd Reich. Russians and Chinese always hate us. The south Koreans 
hate us because we only sacrificed 30,000 of our men to make sure they 
weren't pushed into the sea, and were not willing to cause WWIII with 
China and Russia. All of Latin AMerica hates us because we buy their 
drugs. I think there is a small island in the pacific where they don't 
hate us - yet.