Guardian:

[Ray Easton]

Well, yes, I agree that he was not elected.  But this answer sort of 
begs the question, doesn't it?  He got enough votes to get to the 
position where the Supremes could throw him the election.

On Thursday, Sep 14, 2006, at 07:55 US/Central, John Carvill wrote:

>> That might be a trivial question, but I can't understand this:
>> if everybody hates Bush how come he became the president?
>
> 'Trivial' isn't the right word, but 'became' is apt - he sure wasn't
> elected. He was appointed by the Supreme Court and after having to run 
> a
> gauntlet of protest and egg-throwing at his mostly celebrity-free
> Inauguration,  was struggling to maintain his credibility until Sept 11
> landed in his lap and gave him and the cackling villains around him
> carte blanche to f**k up our world for us.