Keep On Keeping On...
There is no rest for the weary, my friends. We must keep on, keeping on because "America deserves better" and together we can make that a reality.
John Kerry fought the good fight with truth and dignity. Our country will never know what they have lost. George W. Bush is a divider not uniter. No matter what he utters to the American people he will never wrap himself around the hope that John Kerry offered this nation.
My heart is heavy tonight, but my spirit is not dampened.
My life has found a deeper meaning in this quest to restore democracy to our ailing nation. I am to be forever grateful for the opportunity to be a part of John Kerry's campaign. In the days to come as we all pick ourselves up and dust off the cobweb's of our lives forever changed, I hope that others will feel the need as I do continue the message of hope for the future that was John Kerry's vision.
My gratitude goes out to Kerry supporters across this great nation. Each and every one of you deserves praise and thanks.
John Kerry fought the good fight with truth and dignity. Our country will never know what they have lost. George W. Bush is a divider not uniter. No matter what he utters to the American people he will never wrap himself around the hope that John Kerry offered this nation.
My heart is heavy tonight, but my spirit is not dampened.
My life has found a deeper meaning in this quest to restore democracy to our ailing nation. I am to be forever grateful for the opportunity to be a part of John Kerry's campaign. In the days to come as we all pick ourselves up and dust off the cobweb's of our lives forever changed, I hope that others will feel the need as I do continue the message of hope for the future that was John Kerry's vision.
My gratitude goes out to Kerry supporters across this great nation. Each and every one of you deserves praise and thanks.
posted by Pamela J. Leavey at 11:46 PM
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By Combat Doc, at 12:33 AM
You proved your point so well! You truly are what no one here but yourself called you.
Sandy,
:) We will prevail, my friend, we will prevail!
While it's still available online - listen and save it to your hard drive - http://www.johnkerry.com/audio/whatitsworth.mp3 - For What It's Worth Remix by Murad!
I am finding it so hard to swallow that once more (only the second time in modern history) the exit polls did not jibe with the votes in Florida, the home of the Diebold voting machine, whose CEO guaranteed the election in Florida. I hope the DNC is evaluating for fraud in the number of votes cast and counted. I smell fraud but unfortunately no way to prove it. It's so painful to know that the American Public at large (mostly by voting 4:1 in favor of Bush in the south, by the way) and the Religious Right decided the fate of this country and decided that GAY MARRIAGE was a bigger issue than an ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL WAR, FLOUNCING THE GENEVA CONVENTION, JOB LOSS, AND POVERTY. Good God-
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Come on now... this is sour grapes. Blaming the religious right? southerners? etc? The vast majority of people who voted for Bush are traditional people who like smaller government, lower taxes, and have traditional values. They also feel like they know who Bush is, rather than an elitist like Kerry who they were unable to get a true feel for who he is. That's why Bush won and Kerry lost... its really that simple.
What would have happened if Kerry would have won? Should Republicans be blaming the northerners or hippies or yankees or atheists? Get real.
Accept the fact that this is something the majority of the country wanted. We need to come together as a country and move forward TOGETHER. Otherwise we will not advance.
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Good morning.
For the benefit of those of you on the west coast who might not know yet, the sun did come up today.
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No, I don't think you really know who Bush is. The problem is that he is not who he passes himself off as.
I want smaller government and lower taxes. That's why I opposed Bush. Look at how much the government is expanding under him. It is also necessary to look at not only the size of government but what it is doing. As for lower taxes, most of Bush's tax breaks go to those making over $350,000,. It was the Democrats who pushed for adding the middle class tax cuts. Sure I like the cut in capital gains and dividends, but I liked it better under Clilnton when my investments were making a lot more than the last four years, despite the higher taxes. We must also consider the effects of the tax cuts long term on the deficit.
As for traditional values, I'm sure happy my daughter is much more like the daughters of John Kerry, John Edwards, and Al Gore as opposed to George Bush's. As a supporter of smaller government, I also object to a government whiich is deciding upon values for people.
TO those Bush supporters out there- you will regret having him in office as much as we who support Kerry do- if this board is any indication, conservatives are a bunch of McCarthy era lynchpins wanting to destroy real American values. To you, Bush's america is filled with white Christians with two parent homes and two and a half kids where no one is GAY and everyone is blonde. Funny- it was also the view of Nazi Germany and Hitler. If you were really for smaller governments and compassion, you would have voted for Kerry.
Fortunately those Bush supporters who made some of the posts here aren't representative of all conservatives. In many areas I think many of us have similar values. The difference comes down to whether people believe the propaganda.
Sooner or later people will catch on to the fact that the current Republican leadership is not for small government, middle class tax relief, small business, or traditional American values. At the moment the Republicans do a much better job of packaging themselves as representing something they are not than the Democrats are at portraying a positive image.
You cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Either the Republicans will be forced to reform or they will be rejected by voters. I don't really care about party labels and either would be fine with me.
It's the pushing of party labels that causes some of the division in this country!
There are a lot of accusations of fraud. I hate to make such charges as we have no evidence there was fraud. On the other hand, for something as important as an election, those conducting the election need to be able to demonstrate that their count is valid. A paper trail is necessary.
Other reform is also needed. We need to make it easier to vote, and avoid the long lines. Who knows if the people who left because of long lines would have affected the result.
In Michigan we have bipartisan agreement on this issue at least. Both our Democratic Governor and Republican Secretary of State are calling for use of absentee ballots without needing to give a reason, and for early voting. I would also like to see same day registration. One patient I saw today was a poll watcher who told me she had to turn people away for either not being registered or having registered after the deadline.
Republicans normally hate lawyers so much, but sure are willing to call on them on election day.
After the 2000 election there were charges that such problems were more in minority areas. Even if there is no discrimination, it makes sense that more densly populated urban areas would have longer lines.
Ultimately there needs to be more polling places, but I bet the Republicans will avoid doing this. They'll claim that those who want to vote should be willing to wait in line, etc. I figure that at least calling for easier absentee ballots and early voting would be easier than developing entirely new polling places.
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I agree they should have more polling places, or otherwise increase capacity. However we have a better shot at the other measures mentioned, and maybe they'll reduce waiting times. I hope someone has accumulated data to see if there is a pattern of longer waiting times in minority areas.
My heart is broken. I feel like my country has let me down. Bush says that "to make this nation stronger I will need your support". For what? For a war to put gas in Hummers? For the honor of investing our social security in a stock market, where many of us have already lost our retirement accounts? For the chance to watch him further erode our relationships with other nations?
In 2000, he said he'd be a uniter. I hoped and waited. Never did he reach out to the other side, never did he make the slightest attempt to unite this nation. We are now bitterly divided, and his only answer to that problem is to imply that we, the opposition, are obviously deluded, and now that he has proved that 51% of voters are behind him, the other 48% ought to follow. Well I am an American, and I don't follow if I don't agree with the leader. He's going to have to do better than that to win my support.
Mother-of-two, from MA
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To all you conservatives - get the hell off this blog - you people make me sick for slandering good democrats who truly care for the ordinary people. Your party does not allow democrats to post messages on their blogs so why should we democrats allow you to post here. Take a hike!
TO all conservatives: feel free to join in. You actually might learn something. If you can find this sight, your not as dumb as your president. Yes- Bush won by the largest vote count in history. If you use that analogy- Kerry would have won as well- he too got more votes than Reagan. In my opinion, the whole thing was fixed and I hope to God there's evidence to prove it. I think the exit polls were right (they were in 49 states) and that something screwed up happened. I hope Ohio counts all of its votes too. There's no way Bush won and I dont care if it takes me to election day 2008, I will never accept this result.
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Pretty darn sad statement on the state of this country when people have the nerve to post ugly things in a thread wishing Elizabeth Edwards well.
Where is the compassion from the conservatives?
There is none!
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