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I'm sending this directly to your mother, Scott.
"When will it end? Please just let it end!" Pauline Kael, response to watching the film, "Ishtar" "Scott Laughlin" <scottwl@hotmail.com< 11/30/2000 05:47 PM To: rory@carmelnet.com, eldon@interx.net, camsell@pacbell.net, cameron@perfect.com, jdasovic@enron.com, jamkartozian@jps.net, Nancy.Sellers@mondavi.com, psellers@haas.berkeley.edu, Psellers@pacbell.net, william.sellers@wright.edu, timmi@carmelnet.com cc: Subject: Re: Hornswoggled & Bamboozled How 'bout this: Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:05 PM Subject: TO GEORGE W. FROM M.MOORE <Dear Governor and President-in-Waiting Bush: < < This has to be the first <time in our history that a candidate < who is losing BOTH the popular vote <AND the electoral < vote insists on being anointed President of the United < < States. < < I can understand why you expect this title to be yours. <You < have spent your entire life having everything handed to you. < You <have never had to earn your place. Money and name < alone have opened <every door for you. Without effort or < hard work or intelligence or <ingenuity, you have been < bequeathed with a life of privilege. < < You <learned at an early age that, in America, all someone < like you has to do <is show up. You found yourself admitted < to a wealthy New England <boarding school simply because < your name was Bush. You did not have to <EARN your place < there. It was bought for you. < < You then learned you <could get into Yale with a "C" average. < Other, more deserving, students <who had worked hard for < 12 years to earn their place at Yale were denied <admittance. < You got in because your name was Bush. < < You got into <Harvard the same way. After screwing off < during your four years at Yale <-- and maintaining your "C" < average -- you took someone's else's seat at <Harvard, a seat < that they had EARNED. < < You then pretended to serve <a full stint in the Texas Air < National Guard. But one day, according to <the Boston Globe, < you just skipped out and didn't report back for a year <and a < half to your unit. You didn't have to earn your military record < <because your name was Bush. < < After a number of "lost years" that don't <appear in your official < biography, you were given job after job by your <daddy and < other family members -- jobs you didn't have to earn. No <matter < how many of your business ventures failed, there was always < <another one waiting to be handed to you. Finally, you got to < be a <partner in a ball team -- another gift -- even though you < put up only <1/100 of the money for the team. And then you < convinced the taxpayers of <Arlington, Texas, to give you < another perk -- a brand-new multimillion <dollar stadium. < < So it is no wonder to me why you think you deserve to <be < named President. You've haven't earned it or won it -- < therefore <it must be yours! < < And you see nothing wrong with this. < < Why <should you? It is the only life you have ever known. < < I will never <forget the footage of you sitting in your governor's < mansion the night <of the election when it was first declared < that Gore had won Florida. <Surrounded by poppy and mommy, < and on the phone to your brother the <governor of Florida, you < were a picture of calm. You had not a worry in <the world. You < told the press that your brother had assured you Florida <was < yours. If a Bush said it was so, it was so. < < But it ain't so. <And when it dawned on you that the Presidency < had to be earned and won <by a vote of the people -- yes, the < people! -- you went berserk. You <sent in hatchet man James < Baker ("F--- the Jews, they don't vote for us <anyway" was his < advice to Poppy in '92) to tell lies to the American <people and < stoke the nation's fears. When that didn't work, you went to < < federal court and sued to stop the votes from being counted < because <you knew how the vote would turn out. < < What kills me is how you have <turned to the big, bad, federal < government for help! Was not your <mantra, during every < campaign stop, the following line: < < "My <opponent trusts the federal government. I TRUST YOU, < THE PEOPLE!" < < <So now we learn the truth. You don't trust the people at all. < You went <running to the FEDERAL court to get your handout < ("Trust the machines, <not the people," you pleaded). But the < judge didn't buy it, and for <perhaps the first time in your life, < someone said "no" to you. < < <What will you do now? According to the New York Times, < 90% of your <campaign funds came from just 775 American < millionaires. Oh, that they <could bail you out of this mess! I < wouldn't count on them -- it's not <like they have suffered < financially under Clinton/Gore. They know they <will do just fine < with the Kissin' Fool. I think, my friend, you are on <your own. < < Mr. Bush, your only hope is that Gore will wimp out and < <throw in the towel. There is ample evidence of how Democrats < love to <cave. You and your right-wing friends know the < Democrats are weak-kneed <and spineless. You remember how < Al Gore and all the Democrats voted to <put that anti-abortion < zealot Scalia on the Supreme Court -- and how 11 <Democrats < made the difference in placing Clarence Thomas there, too? < < < That's your ticket. Spook Gore and his party into believing a < focus <group is mad at them, take a phony poll that backs that < up, get the <gasbag pundits to yammer and hammer him and maybe, < just maybe, you'll <get the latest plumb prize that is not yours to have. < < < Yours, < < Michael Moore < mmflint@aol.com < <www.michaelmoore.com ______________________________________________________________________________ _______ Get more from the Web. 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