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How the World Sees the U.S. Election |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
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| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,423 Words, 14,334 Characters |
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Disappointment but no bitterness GREAT BRITAIN--In what was seen as a gracious speech, Mr. Gore showed some of the disappointment but none of the bitterness he must feel. But he made no complaint and urged no revenge.
By using the key word "concession," he made sure there was no hint that somehow he thought he hadn't really lost and was simply withdrawing. Al Gore was brought up to be president, but he knows how to accept defeat. Whether his fellow Democrats accept it is less certain.
--BBC Radio
December 14, 2000
The challenge for bush
GREAT BRITAIN--Vice President Gore took the only honorable course. A win is a win, but the contentious victory of George W. Bush has created profound pressure on the U.S. president-elect t...
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...eniably weakened by the enormously contentious manner in which the U.S. presidential election has been finally determined. The immediate imperative is not so much a reinvention of the poll process as a damage-control exercise designed to ease the impact of the present crisis of ensuring presidential legitimacy on the U.S. institutions and on its authority abroad. --Hindu December 14, 2000
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