Reply #54: We are making our voices heard and I believe the

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"groundswell" has already arrived with Obama's election by such a large margin.

I hate to borrow the phrase but--'who could have foreseen' the dire circumstances the last administration left us all in.

We knew so much already,( Iraq, Afghanistan, stolen elections corruption everywhere we looked, torture, Blackwater, etc etc) but then the looming financial fiasco was largely ignored before his election and the crap conveniently hit the fan as soon as the shrubs went out of office.

Our new president was thrown into a pile of garbage higher than the former World Trade Center and yet somehow my life has been happier ever since and I'm sure its the same for all of you, despite of all the crap

But realistically---how can anyone now think about anything much except survival? No jobs, soon no more newspapers, more and more neocons on the radio reaching vast audiences and people who are ignorant and willing to blame the one person in power --while we progressives are losing our voices once more on the public airwaves?

I'm afraid if we wait to long there will be no one left to give a shit about what the shrubs did four, five years down the road.

I agree with you Nance that there is sooooooooo much to do and so little time to do it in--that we have to think everything through in order not to blow it for 2012 and even the mid terms before that.

But we must insist that justice be brought as an example now--while we and especially our president has the means and popularity to bring about the changes we seek.

What if all the stimulus packages don't work--or at least not as fast as we'd like--do you think that will make people think back and blame their sorry state on the war crimes committed years ago? No they'll be blaming Obama for everything as people's memories are short at times like these. I mean there are people already doing that now.

And what about all the local misdeeds by the shrubs--like the terrible injustice done to Governor Don Siegelman, through Karl Rove and his cronies? How much longer we wait to see justice done in that case? He could be going back to jail soon and very few people seem to be aware of that--or care very much.

That's what happens when you let the path to justice wait too long, of course this is all in my humble opinion.

I think you're right that we must continue to pressure the administration and they are totally open to it--I have found.

Writing to them actually yields results, a president who wants to be held accountable is the best possible person we could ever have and it's up to us to lead him where we the people want the country to go.

I urge all you folks not to wait --apply the pressure now and don't stop.

It is the right thing to do and we should not be afraid of the consequences.

Just my opinion of course.