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Edited on Tue Jan-27-04 12:47 PM by calimary
It is AWFUL to get your heart broken. AWFUL. NO sarcasm here, either. Dear marie123, it is MOST encouraging to people like me to read posts like yours.
I myself never believed in him. When I watched him on the campaign trail and realized I was going to have to take him seriously, I was not at all impressed. When I dug into him a little, and read and researched what I could (since the news media was NOT providing anything), I found even less to be impressed about.
You were NOT well-served by our media. And I say this as a former reporter who spent 25 years in the news business. You were taken in and used and played for a fool. And it wasn't just you, either. MOST OF AMERICA has been played like a violin by these people and the media they've intimidated into rolling over. The great Helen Thomas, the Dean of the White House press corps, has said of her colleagues that they all more or less allowed themselves to be put to sleep on 9/11. They allowed themselves to become fearful and docile, and decided it wasn't right or good to question this regime. They were fueled by the demagogues and idealogues who impugned their patriotism if they were to question anything.
But America was built on questions. If we did not question what the British monarchy was doing to us as colonists, we would never have broken away and become independent. THAT is the key, and the key word. INDEPENDENT. Which we aren't.
Well, I take that back. You are independent, now. Those of us at DU are fiercely independent, at least, of the thinking of this regime. We welcome you and embrace you!!! Bless your heart!!! You'll find rants, frustration, outrage, and LOTS of information here on which to base some of your changing and evolving conclusions. Lots of links provided by people here will bring you facts, galore, that you might appreciate.
I celebrate your awakening, and welcome you as a sister. You're not alone out there, and your presence and testimony gladdens our hearts and helps make us stronger and one step closer to taking our country back. I just hope there are enough others like you who have stepped in out of the fog, the fraud, the smoke, and the mirrors.
If you like Dean, great! If you're wondering how you can stomach somebody else, by all means wonder. And then seek out the opinions and links and other details you'll find here, galore, about all the candidates. They all seem equally worthy of rescuing us from the wreckage that bush has made of our country, our national spirit and resolve, our economy, our constitution, our treasury, our privacy, our rights, our pride, and our friendships with others with whom we share this planet, and over whom we DO NOT AND SHOULD NOT RULE. And keep in mind that whoever replaces bush will provoke GLOBAL sighs of relief. Whoever replaces bush will surround himself with those whose agenda is not exploitation and empire, greed and character assassination, lies and theft, piracy, croneyism, and war profiteering.
Bless you. Welcome!
MUCH love,
calimary
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