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| emerging from a bunker of freedom, NT has returned |
| 07.30.04 (7:44 pm) [edit] |
It's been some time, much to everyone's chagrin I am sure, since I've posted, but a long and busy 6 months finds me back to the grind. A quick recap for all you NT enthusiasts:
In the 6 or so months of leave, I have left the wonderful world that is South Carolina and returned to the northeast. Irony can only induce happiness for so long until sadness weighs in. By way of Ct., Nt's HQ is now Boston, Ma. The only unfortunate thing is, down in SC, i was getting more press, being one of very few progressive minded folks, they had a tendency to publish more of my, down there, opposing viewpoint columns.
end transmission.
open dialogue:
Thankfully, as time has passed and kids got older, they have gradually become slightly politically smarter. This, I judge from the mid 40's approval rating of your President, even though he insists that we're turning the corner. Finally i think people are starting to smell the shit.
* daily rising death tolls in viet-raq
* an estimated 70% unemployment rate in the country we're "saving"
* a homebound economy in shambles
* reporting record deficits after being handed a record surplus
* odious offspring
and furthermore, finally a Democratic Party that is starting to show a fucking backbone. ah-goddamn-men.
Being in Boston, specifically this week, has afforded me the sight of the kind of energy something like this can do to a party. At this point, the candidates, as they technically both are, are attempting to solidify their base, and the Democrats did an above par job of energizing theirs.
Despite being an ardent Dean supporter, all the while laothing Kerry and Edwards for their support of the war and blindful support of the USA Patriot Act, I leave this convention at least believing they have a fighting chance to oust the village idiot, and as noted historian, Howard Zinn simply puts it, "voting for the lesser of two evils".
This may not be the icing on the cake, but at least it'd be a fucking cake- ca-peesh?
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