"selected" him to sit in the Oval Office during the Election 2000 controversy. In that process, it stopped a full recount of the votes in Florida, which had it been concluded, would have put Gore in the lead in that state and thus in the Oval Office.

The two salient legal bases for the Supreme Court's decision were: the Safe Harbor provision, a provision enacted during the days where the Slate of Electors' votes were carried to Washington by Pony Express; and the premise that should the recount be allowed to continue to completion, a disproportionate amount of weight would be given to those Floridans' votes counted the second time over those whose votes had been counted the first time. In order to halt that latter disproportionate weight of the recounted votes, the Supreme Court halted the recount. In that process, IT NEGATED THE VOTES OF 51 MILLION AMERICANS WHO HAD VOTED FOR GORE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. READ THOSE WORDS AGAIN: THE SUPREME COURT NEGATED THE VOTES OF 51 MILLION AMERICANS IN ORDER TO AVOID GIVING A DISPROPORTIONATE WEIGHT TO THE VOTERS OF FLORIDA WHOSE VOTES HAD NOT BEEN COUNTED IN THE ORIGINAL ELECTION BUT WERE COUNTED DURING THE RECOUNT. How totally mind-boggling is that?

Never mind the fact the Supreme Court had no legal justification to intercede in this matter to begin with (read Justice Stevens' dissent).

So your effort to convince many here Obama would be illegitimate in the manner Bush* is is laughable on its face.

Considering the state of disarray the State of Florida's conduct has been during this primary season, one must ask: exactly how many Presidential elections does this state feel it's entitled to decide, regardless of how the balance of the states vote ....