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07
Jun

I endorse him and and throw my full support behind him

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Today Hillary works to bring her supporters together with the Obama camp.  We need to be united to rout the Republicans out of the White House in the fall.  W can do it.  We WILL do it.  Yes we can.

15
Oct

walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me

Seems even some of the uber-patriotic country music icons are walking away from the fear-mongering of the Bush administration.  Merle Haggard, as nationalistic a songwriter that I know of, has put his endorsement behind Hillary Clinton.  Knowing a bit about the past political bent of theman, I was a bit hesitant to read an article entitled “Does Merle Haggard Speak for America.”  I am glad I did.  It shows the degree to which the Republican voting base may be disillusioned with the fear, greed and anti-Constitution platform of the GOP.   As Haggard says:

I supported George W. I’m not exactly a liberal. But I know how that Texas thing works, who those oil folks are and what they wanted in Iraq… I’m a born-again Christian too, but the longer I live, the more afraid I get of some of these religious groups that have so much influence on the Republicans and want to tell us how to live our lives.”

Anger is what drove him to his change of view, says Haggard.  Anger, when it is focused at the GOP and the Bush Admin, may be the best friend the Democrats have this election year. 

04
Sep

ghosts of elections past

I moved to Florida in 1999.  I love the state — the teeming flora and eclectic fauna,  the sultry gulf breezes and the shadowy demarcation of seasons’ change. 

The political events that have occurred during these past several years, however, have made me afraid for my state — and, by extension, for my country.  The election debacle of 2000. The stolen presidency.  The election debacle of 2004.   Another stolen presidency.  It felt as if a coup had occurred, and in not too broad a sense, it had.   And the leadership of this nation  hinged in both of those pirated campaigns on the great state of Florida. 

We are there again.  But this time, instead of having the election stolen from us,  the dems in power seem eager to truss it up like a holiday turkey and hand it over to the republicans on a platter.  We are in a primary mess.  Karen Thurman is blaming the DNC Rules and By-Laws Committee.  The DNC is blaming Karen Thurman and the democratic legislators for allowing the reassignment of the primary date.  The leading democratic candidates are blaming the need for adhering to some esoteric protocol and in the doing are imposing some harshly punitive measures on the citizens of Florida.   

I don’t know who is more to blame for this THIRD election travesty.  I do know that none of the culprits are guilt free.  The DNC and Howard Dean, the FDP and Karen Thurman, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Richardson…each and every one has their own share of blame in this game.  The ones who are the victims here are the citizens of Florida — being disenfranchised yet again.  

We deserve better than this.  Why are our votes less important than ones in Iowa?  Than ones in Nevada?  If there was ever a state that needed to be heard, this is the one! 

We won’t be ignored again. 

Our votes will count — one way or another. 






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