The Dems Left the Building!
This was no Kerry loss. This was a failure of the Dem leadership to give 100%. Why help John Kerry win when another four years of George Bush gives the rest of the Dem primary field another shot at the prize? 2008 will bring a new election with no incumbent to worry about, and an open chance to replay the primaries, with Hillary Clinton on board this time.
How unhappy are the Dems with this loss? I'd like to take a "happy" meter and attach it to Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, Dennis Kucinich, or even John Edwards. They must be partying hardy in those back rooms over the prospect of another chance to grab the ring. The alternative would have been to wait 16 years while a victorius John Kerry and his VP, John Edwards hijacked the white house.
The people are the real losers here. We needed john Kerry, for no other reason than to liberate ourselves from George Bush! Too bad the Dem leadership couldn't place the needs of the people ahead of their personal agenda regarding 2008. This is what self-service is all about, I guess.
George Bush is now conning the nation into thinking he has the "will of the people". What will? This election was too close to call it an endorsement, but leave it to W to spin what he wants. The Dems let us down. They had the power to defeat George Bush, but the elite failed us with their lack of 105% effort to push John Kerry and John Edwards into the white house. Let us hope that whoever emerges as the Dem presidential candidate in 2008 will get the full support, not just of the dem constituency, but if the Dem power elite as well.
How unhappy are the Dems with this loss? I'd like to take a "happy" meter and attach it to Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, Dennis Kucinich, or even John Edwards. They must be partying hardy in those back rooms over the prospect of another chance to grab the ring. The alternative would have been to wait 16 years while a victorius John Kerry and his VP, John Edwards hijacked the white house.
The people are the real losers here. We needed john Kerry, for no other reason than to liberate ourselves from George Bush! Too bad the Dem leadership couldn't place the needs of the people ahead of their personal agenda regarding 2008. This is what self-service is all about, I guess.
George Bush is now conning the nation into thinking he has the "will of the people". What will? This election was too close to call it an endorsement, but leave it to W to spin what he wants. The Dems let us down. They had the power to defeat George Bush, but the elite failed us with their lack of 105% effort to push John Kerry and John Edwards into the white house. Let us hope that whoever emerges as the Dem presidential candidate in 2008 will get the full support, not just of the dem constituency, but if the Dem power elite as well.
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