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These past 8 years have left me very, very, disillusioned about our government, and the Democratic party as a whole. We should have never gotten to the point we're at now. When a nation of over 300 million elects a relative handful of people who sought to lead us we should be able to expect a good deal of courage and integrity. Instead, and with few exceptions, we got a bunch of self-serving cowards. That's why we're broke, the military's broke, hundreds of thousands of hearts are broken, and that's why an unknown number, from tens to hundreds of thousands, of lives have been snuffed out. It's because we don't have leaders, we have self-serving politicians.
I understand that compromise is necessary in politics. I get that. But when lives are at stake there can be no compromise. Either it's worth the certain death of many thousands of people, or it's not. When that much is at stake, leaders have to make up their damn minds and then put everything they've got into doing the right thing. With the exception of the Bush administration itself, I sure didn't see much of that going on, and I don't expect to see much of it now. Too much light will expose too much. They just want to have an election, a new administration, and then everybody can forget about all the recent nastiness. They don't want to talk about what they did in the war.
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