"Some people must admire George W. He's President, isn't he?"

Now that just doesn't follow, Doug. The fact that you might vote for someone in no way implies that you in any shape or form admire them.

And that isn't a party political point I'm making, it's a logical quibble. There are people in all parties, in all countries, who have been elected, in respect of whom the concept that someone actually admires them simply beggars belief.

Here's what I thought was an interesting article about all this, making some thought provoking philosophical points.

One point's been puzzling me in all this - as I understand it, the final clinching argument for that Supreme Court of yours was that having the votes counted in a different way in different places would offend against natural justice, and so couldn't be allowed. But that should surely have implied that the whole election across the United States was null and void in any case.