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Friday, November 05, 2004

Read Thomas Frank's editorial today in the New York Times.

Read Paul Krugman's editorial also.
12:15:17 PM    comment []

Here's something else that was sent to me for posting (I'm still cringing):

This is an “open letter” to John Kerry and his family in support and appreciation!!

“THIS COUNTRY, AND THE WORLD, MISSED A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY”

I have the utmost respect for you and your family. You ran a great and honest campaign (unlike the GOP). You didn’t let us down, we let you down, at least 51% of us did. Please be not upset and continue to work for us; the American people need your help!!

I CRINGE at the thought of the next 4 years and what it will bring upon the American people. Fear mongering can do appalling things to people and so does ignorance; forgive us!!

We might have a President of the United States, but I will personally never consider him “my” President. I hope and pray you plan to run again in 2008, for we need you desperately! We need to know “help is on the way” in 2008. Please don’t give up on us. This election had to have been an aberration, or our country is truly LOST!!

Thanks, warmest regards and God’s blessings to you and your family,

11:43:32 AM    comment []

Heres another point of view (obviously not mine):

Thomas Frank and so many like him are simply living in a fantasy world. George Bush won fair and square and most Americans know it. The fact is that there is nothing “wrong” with Kansas or the rest of “fly over” country as Mr. Frank would have us believe.

Where once the Democrat Party was the party of the average person, today it is, in the words of Zell Miller, “a national party no more” because it is controlled by elitists who can’t get past the need to scare and divide people in order to win power. When a party begins to owe its existence to dividing people, people eventually begin to notice.

Today, it is the Republican Party that appeals to the average person while the Democrat party has been set back a generation. Mr. Frank and his ilk would do well to begin looking inward. Unless and until Democrats can snap out of denial, stop the class warfare nonsense and end their black helicopter mindset, they will forever be lost in history.

11:40:16 AM    comment []