Reply #42: I remember telling

[H2O Man]

one of my associates, an elderly Lakota woman, that Kerry was going to beat Bush. I said it will be close, but Kerry will win. And she said yes, you are right. Kerry will beat Bush in the election. But the powers behind the curtain are already prepared, and are not going to allow it to happen. The computers will be "fixed" in a couple of key places, and Bush will remain in power.... because the entire contest would be about power, and those with their hands on the reins of power would not willingly hand them over.

Clark also represents power. Much like some of the other democratic candidates, he represents a different kind of power. Howard Dean is power. Rev. Al began to mature and become powerful. Dennis K was pointing towards another source of power. I think that John Edwards had some real power, until he accepted the VP position (although I surely was in favor of him for VP), and then it was drained from his being. It didn't grow properly, because it was not cultivated properly.

Similarly, we retain a significant potential for power. We have two choices: we can ignore it, and fail to cultivate and nourish it, and it will wilt on the vine; or we can begin to grasp that real power comes in many forms, most of them being unrecognizeable to moral misfits in the current administration.

If Clark had been elected, or Dean, or Kerry ..... they could not have transformed our nation by decree from the White House. They could not have transformed our communities by a bill introduced in congress. They could not have transformed our lives with a state of the union address.

But we can. We can do each one of these. We can transform our nation by transforming our communities by transforming ourselves. We are more powerful than WMDs when we find unity. And we find unity in finding our common interests. And even in identifying our common enemy.