The reason I feel so good today is knowing

[madokie]

when a bunch of crooks are allowed to run amuck like this bush* crew has they will surely always lose sight of what is right and what is wrong and that little fact will bring them down in the end every time. We are, after all, a country of laws not individual rule. This will pass and our country will be much the stronger for it. For instance, I was reading a poll recently indicating that the majority of Americans are willing to pay more in taxes to fund programs for the betterment of all Americans from young to old. This cancer on our country called bush/cheney has awaken many people to the fact that we all as Americans first can have things so much better. Maybe we won't make much headway with our present congress critters but we do have the power of the vote in our hands and I see Americans ready and willing to exert that power in numbers not seen before. Our better days lie ahead for us. IMHO

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[jmg257]

1. I would like to agree, I really would, but I think * has screwed us

big time; and the biggest crime of all is the division that is in this country now. I hear many so angry that they are talking "revolution" and such, when it appears the real battle would be a civil war. Seems there is always a stream of needing to blame SOMEONE, always constant anger at SOMEONE, alot of hate at fellow Americans that are seen as the enemy, like they are the reason why things are so F%#$ed up; meanwhile, there is another whole set of people who are just clueless, and don't even know what has happened the last 7 years, or find it so damn easy to justify all they have lost.

Will things get better when he is gone? Can't get any worse! But to think the separation is going to dissapear? I just don't see it, too many don't see the reality - it is very sad.

[madokie]

2. I'm cool with that, what I'm seeing here in this part of the world is a change in peoples

perception of what government is about, their seeing that the Government is about being there when we need it, knowing so many of us will need assistance at some point in time. What I'm talking about is the people I intermingle with going thru my everyday life their attitudes have changed somewhere along the last few years. hearing mentions of impeachment where I would have never thought I'd hear it to how much we have lost and are loosing concerning this war on terror that the lyttle tyrant is waging. 6 months ago I was hearing none of this kind of talk, none.

[wiggs]

3. I just don't feel that way. They aren't being brought down yet...and leaving

office at the end of their term doesn't count as being brought down either. Impeachment is actually not enough...it is merely getting fired after pillaging, stealing, killing, and smearing their way through 6 years of power abuse. I'll take it, and as soon as possible, but it's not commensurate with the misdeeds.

I also don't see any rush to reduce corporatism, which is at the root of all this.

In some ways, we may be stronger afterward as the pendulum swings the other way, but there is so much damage that will linger for a generation or two that cannot be reversed: loss of life; huge deficits that threaten our ability to fund good projects and operate in the global economy; permanent environmental damage; and the resentment by victims of our adventurism in the middle east (tell me that kids growing up in baghdad watching friends and family die aren't bitter for the rest of their lives).