One nation, divided, with liberty and justice for all those with deep pockets.
NO, NO, NO, this cannnot be happening.....How can this be? Is this really the world that we've been born into? How did 90% of my peers not feel that it was worth it to get off their bland lazy asses and exert the powerful voice, the right they have been born with? This is absolutely ridiculous. How dare Kerry call himself a fucking Democratic candidate? I truly thought he was a man who could carry this country, but now . . . now he deserves whatever shallow grave he just dug for himself. To concede???? To concede before all votes have been tallied, before the final three states have been declared . . . if this is how he finishes a campaign, then I'm not sure if he really would have been a good president. He was carrying the trust, hopes, and fears of so many and for what ever reason it came down to in the end, abandoned us. I want him to know what this means for the face of the country. I want him to know what this means for the fate of the world. Because, this is by no means only about what will happen for people living within our fifty states, this is so much bigger than that. By backing down, Kerry is delivering the reins of (what may not stay this way much longer) the most powerful country into the greedy, grubby, little hands of a man who cannot even think for himself, let alone manage a single business successfully.
For the past nine years, since I was eleven years old and went to europe for the first time, I have known that I could never make America my home. Now, America has made it so that I could never be at home there. If I am forced to return and find a place where I have so say over my own body, that I or my friends are not allowed to wed whomever we desire, that I will be forced to bear arms against people I have no quarrel with for a cause I do not support, that the people in my area will be allowed to keep even more of their money while making it impossible for many other people to have access to the basic human rights like simple health care, I will refuse and I would rather risk imprisonment than support a tyrannical regime.
There is one person in this whole day who gives me any hope. Barack Obama makes me want to believe that good can still come from our political structure.
I'm going home to my italiana signora now. we'll eat dinner and she'll want to talk about this. I might vomit on the table if I have to explain the situation.
I wish I could have been writting very very very different post. I never pray, but I'm praying now and I'm not going to stop until something shifts.
For the past nine years, since I was eleven years old and went to europe for the first time, I have known that I could never make America my home. Now, America has made it so that I could never be at home there. If I am forced to return and find a place where I have so say over my own body, that I or my friends are not allowed to wed whomever we desire, that I will be forced to bear arms against people I have no quarrel with for a cause I do not support, that the people in my area will be allowed to keep even more of their money while making it impossible for many other people to have access to the basic human rights like simple health care, I will refuse and I would rather risk imprisonment than support a tyrannical regime.
There is one person in this whole day who gives me any hope. Barack Obama makes me want to believe that good can still come from our political structure.
I'm going home to my italiana signora now. we'll eat dinner and she'll want to talk about this. I might vomit on the table if I have to explain the situation.
I wish I could have been writting very very very different post. I never pray, but I'm praying now and I'm not going to stop until something shifts.