Edwards Invokes 2000 Recount in Florida (Lies, Lies, and More Lies)

FoxNews/AP ^ | 7/18/04 | Fox News/AP

[NYC Republican]

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (search) pledged from the pulpit of a black church on Sunday that the party will work hard to head off the kind of Florida ballot irregularities that Democrats assert gave the White House to George W. Bush.

"We will get voters registered. We will get voters mobilized. We will get voters to the polls," the North Carolina senator told the congregation of St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church (search).

A scant 537 votes delivered Florida and the presidency to Bush after a protracted legal battle resolved by the Supreme Court.

The race seems as close this year as then, and both parties have been working hard to prevail and win the state's 27 electoral votes.

"The eyes of the world will be on Florida again this year," said AME Church Bishop McKinley Young in introducing Edwards.

In five days of solo campaigning, Edwards had been reaching out to minorities -- Hispanics in Southern California, blacks here -- as well as attending a round of fund-raisers in an effort to raise as much last-minute money as possible before the Democratic National Convention (search) next week.

Blacks, who as a group voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Al Gore (search) in 2000, say they were disproportionately affected by the 2000 election abuses, including the failure to count thousands of votes, many of them in black neighborhoods.

[NYC Republican]

This scumbag is just as nasty as SKerry... he just does it with a smile. Lying liberal weasels...

When is someone in the media finally going to ask one of these clowns, Jessie Jackson, that ugly fat wig-wearing FL congresswoman, anyone making these charges, for PROOF of the charges?

[NYC Republican]

What about the FACT that nearly every area in FL was headed by a Dem (all except one, which was overseen by an Independent).

[xJones]

The Dems are learning, this time their vice candidate is a trial lawyer.

[ClearCase_guy]

How does the IRS feel about campaign rallies being staged in Churches on Sunday?

[TRY ONE]

"....Edwards had been reaching out to minorities...."

When a trial lawyer like Edwards "reaches out" his $1000/hr meter is usually running......

[counterpunch]

 
 
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[goldstategop]

To liberals its not the truth, the facts, or the data that matters. Its the seriousness of the charge leveled that's what counts. Which is why Little Johnny can keep waving the "bloody shirt" of the debunked claims about a stolen election in Florida long after the country moved on.

[tet68]

A scant 537 votes delivered Florida and the presidency to Bush after a protracted legal battle resolved by the Supreme Court.

Of course this doesn't count the ballots
from the panhandle republicans who were effected by
the press calls of a Gore win prior to the close of polls.

Democrats, pathetic but dangerous never the less.

[tet68]

Only let Dick Cheney speak from the pulpit of a
church and see what happens.

[tuvals]

The answer to your question is, IMHO, when HELL freezes over! These liberals don't know the truth, don't seek the truth, nor do they tell the truth. They are, as the tile of an old TV show goes "Lost In Space".

[NYC Republican]

I can't believe Cameron allowed Edwards to go scot free, without asking him some of these questions... Like, WHY DID THEY SAY FOLKS LIKE WHOOPI REPRESENT THE HEART AND SOUL OF AMERICA?

[suzyq5558]

What is the deal with these dem politicans politicing from the pulpit??? I was under the impression that doing that was some kind of violation? or is this one of those its ok for me but not for you thingys?

[NYC Republican]

Excellent!!! As usual.

[Kackikat]

This group is by far the most dingy bunch of people ever born. The Clintoons were power hungry and evil, but the Kerry-Edwards ticket is a bunch of juvenile bufoons!!

[Richard Kimball]

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards (search) pledged from the pulpit of a black church on Sunday that the party will work hard to head off the kind of Florida ballot irregularities that Democrats assert gave the White House to George W. Bush.

What about that separation of church and state thing that liberals and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State are always talking about?

Also, saw a clip on SeeBS of Kerry during a campaign rally in Florida, where he said that "We're going to go down there and teach all those Republicans in Palm Beach County how to count ballots!" This is the first time I've ever heard that Palm Beach County is a Republican stronghold.

[suzyq5558]

I know!!! my mom says they all need spankings and sent to bed with no supper.

[fortunecookie]

This scumbag is just as nasty as SKerry... he just does it with a smile. Lying liberal weasels...

Reminiscent of, oh, I don't know, Clinton???? By design, of course. He's an ambulanc-chasing, overly-litigious attorney first and foremost (no offense, freeper attys). I'm sure he's going to cash in if they do manage once again to create something out of nothing.

[NYC Republican]

Exactly and Exactly

[Old Sarge]

Blacks, who as a group voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Al Gore (search) in 2000, say they were disproportionately affected by the 2000 election abuses, including the failure to count thousands of votes, many of them in black neighborhoods.

Military members, who as a group voted overwhelmingly for Republican George W. Bush in 2000, say they were disproportionately affected by the 2000 election abuses, including the failure to count thousands of votes, many of them in towns and cities near military installations who would have prevented the recount in the first place had their votes been legitimately counted instead of being thrown into the trash by Socialist scum!

NYC Pubbie: This rant was NOT directed at you...

[Rebelbase]

We can count one Edwards to deliver a sprititual message when given the opportunity to speak to a congregation.

[Cobra64]

These morons are obsessed with Floriduh. Probably they are going to have third grade lessons on how to vote.... These jerks are over the top on stupidity.

[Ben Hecks]

"What about the FACT that nearly every area in FL was headed by a Dem (all except one, which was overseen by an Independent)."

They also conveniently forget that judge Sauls, a Democrat, ruled against Gore before his decision was wrongly overturned by the Florida Supreme Court. In legal actions, Gore lost three of four rounds.

[NYC Republican]

The only "disenfranchised" folks you ever hear about are the blacks, yet there's not ONE proven case of intimidation or fraud... There's always ballots that aren't counted- in FL in '00, 5.4% of white votes weren't counted primarily because of voter error, and 4.5% of black votes weren't counted, for the same reason... Who's disenfranchised??? Your point about the military is also a good one...

Again, SKUMBAG SKERRY and his lover Breck Girl are disgraceful, as are the media for not asking a single question... Where's your proof?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Blacks, who as a group voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Al Gore in 2000, say they were disproportionately affected by the 2000 election abuses, including the failure to count thousands of votes, many of them in black neighborhoods.

If you punch out the chads for more than one candidate, it is impossible for your vote to be counted. This is not an abuse. It is a necessary part of the election process. Just how are we suppose to count a ballot that is marked twice?

As far as these election "abuses" go, I still have yet to hear of one documented case of a person (of color, any color, including white) who was properly registered, went to the correct polling place during the assigned voting hours, who filled out a ballot properly, and whose vote was not counted.

[NYC Republican]

Good point! I had forgotten that.

[Congressman Billybob]

Actually, there WERE two kinds of discrimination against Florida voters in 2000. Folks who have done their homework honestly know that black REPUBLICAN votes were not counted at the highest possible level in Florida. And dominantly REPUBLICAN votes in the Florida panhandle were discouraged from voting by the networks (accidentally?) calling Florida for Gore before the polls had closed in the panhandle.

But Edwards is a trial lawyer. He can be expected to bury inconvenient facts, and lie to the people (jury) in order to get whatever he wants.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "John Kerry & John Edwards: You've GOT to be Kidding"

[TC Rider]

This scumbag is just as nasty as SKerry... he just does it with a smile.

My Mother (80) calls him possum.

She says her father used to say, "That man smiles like a possum eating sh!t".

[NYC Republican]

"That man smiles like a possum eating sh!t"

LOVE that!

[lowbridge]

How does the IRS feel about campaign rallies being staged in Churches on Sunday?

They absolutely hate it....when its being done in support of Republicans

[NYC Republican]

Double standards abound with the DemocRATS

[nothingnew]

Gee whiz, I thought politics couldn't be done from the pulpit. I need the new rule book.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Vigilanteman]

A scant 537 votes delivered Florida and the presidency to Bush after a protracted legal battle resolved by the Supreme Court.

A few more inconvenient factoids:

1. Bush's margin was 1800 votes before the overseas ballots were counted.
   
2. Gore's lawyers disqualified a majority of the overseas (mainly military) ballots on such idiotic technicalities as lacking a postmark-- then high-fived each other for their cleverness.
   
3. The military votes which got through gave Bush an additional 900 vote margin and those which were disqualified would likely have produced a similar number.
   
4. So even without the 10,000 votes or so which the panhandle would have produced, there was around a 4000 vote margin-- more than Gore got in New Mexico and comparable to what he got in Iowa and Wisconsin.
   
5. The margin was whittled down to the infamous 537 votes only after DNC operatives were allowed to manufacture additional votes in carefully selected heavilly Democrat precincts in West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami by a partisan Florida Supreme Court.
   
6. The Supreme Court rulings could have been used to throw out all of these manufactured votes as a violation of the equal protection clause (i.e., votes of imbicles who can't follow an arrow and poke a hole count for more than those putting their life on the line and unable to obtain a postmark due to circumstances beyond their control).

Bill Sammon's excellent book At Any Cost details all of the above and more.

[NYC Republican]

Thanks!

[GailA]

Where is the IRS? Him Speaking from the pulpit is a crime.

[jackibutterfly]

Good God! Another Felos!

[NYCVirago]

How does the IRS feel about campaign rallies being staged in Churches on Sunday?

Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State just sent a letter to the IRS because Jerry Falwell endorsed Bush. I'm quite sure he'll be on this, right?

[Kuksool]

Well, Barry Lynn's silence does reveal his true intentions. He just wants to help RATS get elected.

[50 Cal]

Is anyone really suprised that a trial lawyer would be lying? Oh and let me note that this is a liberal democrat lawyer as well.

So what we have here is a Lying Liberal Lawyer! The lowest form of life on earth!