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BayouBengal07 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:55 AM
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What was John Bolton doing in the 2000 recount?
I was watching Olberman and they were showing clips of the recount from 2000, and I swear I saw John Bolton looking at a punchcard. What's the deal with that? Was there a conflict of interest?
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 02:36 AM
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1. The Bush campaign's chad checker maybe?
He wasn't part of the 'Fascists R Us' bunch pictured here:
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 02:47 AM
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2. Yes it was...
...here he is with Judge Charles Burton examining a ballot.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:09 AM
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3. Bolton: ''I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count."
He's been a right-wing water-carrier literally for decades, and he snaps-to when called. There's a great profile of this ugly specimen here:

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/03/b252671.html
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Bolton was in South Korea on an AEI assignment when he received a call from long-time mentor James Baker, who was leading the charge on the Florida recount in 2000. Baker told him to get on the next plane, which he did. After working as a lawyer with the Republican team in Florida, he grabbed reporters' attention when he burst into a Tallahassee library announcing ''I'm with the Bush-Cheney team, and I'm here to stop the count."
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:47 AM
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5. He's a good boy.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:40 AM
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4. wish i had hbo so i could see this. but that ain't happening.
http://www.hbo.com/films/recount/interviews/jay_roach.html
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