The nation is gasping for air

[SummerGrace]

And all you have to do is ask any schoolteacher or grandparent or health-care worker or conscious sensual attuned soulful organism anywhere, and the answer is unavoidable: The nation is gasping for air.
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Cities are desperate, basic services are being slashed, schools are broke, the environment's molested, the GOP has promised a ridiculous array of cuts and dedicated billions they can't possibly deliver in light of inane tax cuts and the biggest deficit in U.S. history. Hey, how's your portfolio doing?
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Or maybe it's all those U.S. soldiers, more dying every single day, outright brutal guerrilla warfare with no end in sight, tens of thousands of American soldiers stuck in miserable and war-torn Iraq for years to come, proving that BushCo's policy of perpetual unilateral war in the name of a sovereignty we no longer have is just plain dangerous, if not downright immoral. Iran? North Korea? Liberia? Saudi Arabia? Wanna make your own list?

But we are healing fast. We are coming back to life. We are opening our blackened eyes, realizing we have been massively and systematically and enthusiastically and intentionally duped by some very rich, very impotent white males three years running and it's damn near time for a domestic regime change and let's just float a Dean/Kerry (Kerry/Dean?) presidential ticket out there to the cosmic Void, see how it plays, shall we?

Because after all, that whimpering house of cards, it can't survive much longer.

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, July 25, 2003
©2003 SF Gate
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URL:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/07/25/notes072503.DTL

[RandomKoolzip]

1. Yeah, but wasn't "American Idol" like, SO awesome?

Yes, I'm kidding.

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2. This is a dupe...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=2869&mesg_id=2869&page=