Ever since George Bush was awarded the 2000 Presidential election thanks to his brother's efforts in Florida (where Bush "won" by 537 votes despite having nearly 180,000 votes left uncounted), one has wondered if his fraudulent election would ever come back to haunt him.
Luckily for Bush the media has been too willing not to question him personally on this or many other topics. As Dan Froomkin, who writes the White House Briefing for the Washington Post, said in an online discussion It's amazing how he has avoided public confrontation about either the 2000 election or what is increasingly looking like widespread torture of Iraqis at the hands of our troops and spies.
Rather than finally being personally questioned by Americans or the American press, it might be left to those protectors of democracy, the Russians, to finally challenge his legitimacy face to face.
Russian ambassador to the United States, Yuri Ushakov, indicated in response to questions from the New York Times regarding Bush's upcoming trip to Russia and his plans to scold Russian President Vladimir Putin that "there are others who are highly critical of your electoral system."
Bush administration officials suggested that he was referring to such matters as ..... the 2000 presidential election, in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mr. Bush in a recount dispute, effectively securing his victory.
More than four years later this could be the first real pointed questioning Bush has faced about his legitimacy. And as Froomkin pointed out - What irony it would be if Putin brought them up.
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