"squalid little crook".

Counting the vote should be above politics. Any kind of democrat - small L please note - wants to see a fair and complete count.

A razor-thin division of vote means that a recount is necessary. Any true democrat (small L) will want to see a recount, regardless of whether he or she is ahead or not. Getting the vote right is more important than who wins.

If the person who is ahead in a razor-thin vote tries to obstruct the recount, he or she interfering with the democratic process and trying to steal the election.

And that is what Bush has been openly and persistantlym and shamelessly doing, that is why I think he is a squalid litle crook. And if Gore had done the same I'd call him a pompous little crook.

The point is, there has not been a complete recount in Florida, nor even in the few counties that tried to hold a recount. And Bush and co have done everything they could to obstruct every effort to hold such a recount.

Anyone who tolerates behaviour by and on behalf of the candidate they happen to prefer that they would not tolerate in an opposing candidate is a hypocrite and no friend of democracy. Can't there at least be consensus on that?

This isn't really about politics, at all, it's about dishonesty and corruption.