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Gore Afraid of Freepers?
National Review Online ^ | Nov 19, 2002 | David Frum

Posted on 11/19/2002 6:40:11 AM PST by MP5

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To: MP5
>> There were people who wanted to fan the … the flames of the racial issue

There was a racial issue? I hadn't heard.

Dave in Eugene
101 posted on 11/19/2002 7:56:00 PM PST by Clinging Bitterly
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To: Dave in Eugene of all places
There was a racial issue? I hadn't heard.

The claim was tens of thousands of black people were "disenfranchised". Disenfranchised by "cheap voting machones", until a FReeper did an analysis county by county in FloriDUH and showed that the Votematics were more likely in rich suburean white areas than the opposite. A University of Missouri and a University of Maryland prof did the same thing nationwide.

Mary Francis Berry, the PARTISAN chair of the US Civil Rights Commission could olny get three "disenfranchised voters" to testify at hearings in South Flori-DUH. All three were able to vote. One person complained about an unoccupied police car parked down the street from the poll. Intimidation they claimed. Yet he voted.

Another was in a roadblock. Passed inspection of their paperwork and went two miles to poll and voted.

The third was challenged as a felon, went to the Election Judge/Officals, resolved the problem and voted.

There were racial issues, but they were planted there by DEMOCRATS in search of an excuse to steal the election.

By the way, when was the last time you heard someone whine that the World Series winner didn't get as many hits as the loser?

The only black person that got disenfranchised was Maynard Jackson who should have been the DNC Chair, but Clinton stabbed him in the back to install his own bag man, Terry McAUliffe.

102 posted on 11/19/2002 8:16:03 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: Izzy Dunne
He said, "We have to do what's best for the country, and it is not good for the country to have this kind of divisiveness. And he was on the phone, really calling off the dogs. There were people who wanted to fan the … the flames of the racial issue and have real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what was best for the country not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who he is.

This is pure bravo sierra. Anybody have the URL of the (surprisingly) excellent series of articles in the Washington Post about the Gore loss? One of the articles explicitly mentioned that after the GOP street protests spread, he got on the phone with the unions to bus their members to DC to the Observatory protests.

Coincidentally, that weekend was notable for the actions of a Gore supporter who confronted and suckerpunched a 12 year old boy with a Bush sign and the sad scene of the Gore contingent refusing to say anything to the police when they were questioned about the incident.

I haven't posted on FR since those days (used to go as gogo) - can't even remember my old password so thus my new handle, but man Gore and his ilk seriously piss me off in how deceitful they can be. Everything he and his progeny are saying are lies. GOP bussing, my ass!

And Frum has the numbers all wrong. 4 dozen of us? More like 66 dozen at the height of Gore's attempted power grab.

103 posted on 11/19/2002 8:24:41 PM PST by turbojugend
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To: MP5
Buses? I was there, and I didn't see any buses. Did anyone else see any buses? "Organized"? "Republican response"? I'm an independent, and I drove up from North Carolina in my own little heap, because I was so angry about the Democrats disqualifying absentee military ballots in Florida.

We held up signs and chanted, but we stayed on our side of the street, a long way back from the residence. I don't see how it could have intimidated anyone. We were demure and well-behaved, as protestors go.

Did anyone hear the "whale sounds" Mrs. Gore said she played? I didn't.

As for Mrs. Gore's insinuation that we shouted things that were improper, the only dirty words I heard were from the side of the street with the pro-Gore people. They were few in number, but they made up for it in nastiness. One of them walked down the street in front of us at one point, shouting "F___ing fascists!" at us over and over.

104 posted on 11/19/2002 8:26:00 PM PST by solzhenitsyn
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To: Dave in Eugene of all places
There was a racial issue? I hadn't heard.

Yeah, there was a kook with a megaphone out there yelling at the house:
Shame on you Al Gore, shame on you. Have you gone mad! Shame on you for sending your spiritual adviser the racial extortionist Jesse Jackson to the Supreme Court to intimidate our judges and threaten to burn our cities. Have you gone mad! Shame on you Al Gore. Shame, shame, shame.

105 posted on 11/19/2002 8:28:55 PM PST by Gore_ War_ Vet
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To: MP5; glocker23
bump for a Gore Freeper read.
106 posted on 11/19/2002 8:29:43 PM PST by Jael
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To: KC_Conspirator
This is the most telling part: There were people who wanted to fan the … the flames of the racial issue and have real unrest. And he was on the phone asking them not to, because of what was best for the country not because of what was best for him politically. And that's really who he is.

What this Gore duaghter is saying is that There are Democrats who want to foment racial violence for political reasons WHOA! Nothing is 'racial' about "Get out of Cheney's House!"? Yet Democrats were willing to respond with racial attacks. This whole interview says a lot more about them than about their supposed enemies. They try to play the victim but they are very much in an 'us-vs-them' mode.

107 posted on 11/19/2002 8:44:37 PM PST by WOSG
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To: Gore_ War_ Vet
Hey, I remember that kook!

Nice guy, really, as I remember.

:-)

108 posted on 11/19/2002 8:47:57 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: Gore_ War_ Vet; Doctor Raoul; kristinn; abner
I'm only staying up late to check around the 'net and see where those "McAuliffe, Get out of Maynard's chair!" shirts turn up next.
109 posted on 11/19/2002 8:49:57 PM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: tgslTakoma
Me too. Problem is that a lot of media now have their mail screened or irradiated. That adds a few days.

I'd listen to Dornan's show tomorrow though....

110 posted on 11/19/2002 9:07:43 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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To: MP5
Typical demoncrat mindset: We "little people" have no right to protest our "leaders."
111 posted on 11/19/2002 9:12:07 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: solzhenitsyn
Buses? I was there, and I didn't see any buses. Did anyone else see any buses? "Organized"? "Republican response"?

It's DemocRATS who bus in protestors (dba Rent-A-Mob). As for the "scary" remarks made by the crowd, I remember an incident a few years ago where a group of striking Union pukes beat the crap out of a guy who was counter-protesting. When soon-to-be disgraced ex-President Clinton was asked to comment about the beating, he grinned that dirt-eating grin of his and said, "Heck, I thought it was just good old-fashioned political debate."

112 posted on 11/19/2002 9:18:11 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: MP5
bump
113 posted on 11/19/2002 9:38:44 PM PST by timestax
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To: WOSG
Exactly! The fact is that the democrats tried to foment racial unrest for political gain anyway, but the "Republican mobs" were too tough.
114 posted on 11/20/2002 8:16:19 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Timeout
Because that pitiful renter was living in it.

Sorry. I meant why didn't Al just move into HIS own house.

115 posted on 11/20/2002 1:05:42 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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