Does anyone remember Neville Chamberlain? On September 30, 1939, he stepped off an airplane, the day after the Munich Conference had ended, waiving Adolph Hitler's guarantee of peace.

Standing in front of 10 Downing Street he proclaimed he had brought "peace with honor ... I believe it is peace for our time ... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep." That seems to be John Kerry's foreign policy.

And the list goes on.

President Bush will suppress black votes, John Kerry and former president Jimmy Carter declare.

Mr. Carter says that it seems likely there will be a repeat of irregularities seen during the disputed 2000 presidential election, which was decided by only a few hundred votes. Carter whines that Republican election officials have tried to disqualify 22,000 African American voters in Florida, voters who are, he says, "likely Democrats." Carter neglects to mention that the disenfranchised are convicted felons who, by virtue of their non-virtue -- their felony -- are automatically deprived of their civil rights, including the right to vote.

At a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, Kerry said, "We are not going to stand by and allow another million African American votes to go uncounted in this election. We are not going to stand by and allow acts of voter suppression."

Another million? Where and when was the first million suppressed?

"What they did in Florida in 2000, they may be planning to do this year," Kerry said.

There will be voting irregularities Carter warns. He should have been watching the last time. During the 2000 election, 46,000 people were registered to vote in both New York and Florida, according to election records in both states. Never mind that voting in two separate states is a violation of federal law, 1,700 of those dual-state voters asked for write-in ballots (so they could vote at home and away).

And underline this: 68 percent of the cheaters were Democrats, 16 percent claimed no party affiliation, and only 12 percent claimed to be Republicans.

Now let's plug in the actual figures.

After all of the recounts, which were supervised and scrutinized and upheld by all panels of observers, both legislative and judicial, President Bush won Florida by 537 votes. The number of Democratic Party voters who asked for write-in ballots for both New York and Florida was 1,156 -- double the margin of the President's victory.

Because election records are routinely purged, there is no way to tell how many people -- from either party -- voted twice, but the fact that George W. Bush won Florida by even one single vote is nothing short of a miracle -- and I use "miracle" in the literal, biblical sense.