López Obrador, the man who lost the Mexico presidential election because of some of the same dirty tricks that allowed the Republicans to steal the elections for Bush, told a crowd of more than a million people to commit acts of "peaceful civil resistance" to force a vote-by-vote recount. He is not about to give in without a real fight.
It's a pity that Gore and Kerry didn't have the same guts. We might not have had to put up with the ugly and dangerous Bush for the past several years. Instead the gutless fools rolled over and let the Republicans steal the elections.
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The Green Knight says:
That's the bit I fail to understand, just why particularly Al Gore gave way so quickly when the voting process was so obviously riddled with problems.
It came as a great shock to hear a would-be leader of a country say, in effect 'ok, I'll accept that you don't want to count everybody's votes - you win.'
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Deck replies:
The same thing could happen this year and in 2008 if the Democrats don't start getting some backbone. Both Gore and Kerry could have put millions in the street fighting for honest elections if they had not been such gutless wimps.
Posted by Deck at July 18, 2006 11:03 AM