Posted on 01/06/2005 8:35:34 PM PST by dukeman
Pachamama (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-06-05 11:04 PM
01/06/05-The Day the Democratic Party & Democracy Died in America
Someday, when my two young children are old enough to understand, I'll tell them that January 6th, 2005 was the day the Democratic Party and Democracy died in America.
I will teach them about a great American patriot named Barbara Boxer and her Brave Stand with the Black Congressional Caucus to take a stand. I'll explain to them that it was the failure of the Democrats to stand united and support the US Constitution and the rights of voters by either not showing to vote or to vote against the measure to reject the Ohio Electoral Vote is why their Mom & Dad switched from the Democratic Party to the Green Party and never gave a penny again to the DNC. I will tell them I continued to support the 33 Brave Democrats in the House and the one brave Senator that voted in favor to reject an unclean election and support instead the rights of the voters and the US Constitution.
Today is a day of shame and in my opinion, the death of democracy in America....all we will see moving forward is the "one party system" controlled by a party that is not the "GOP" of my parents and grandparents and that every single thing this country has stood for, from civil rights, civil liberties, rights of privacy, and all the hard fought rights and societal protections of its citizens from education, minimum wage, environmental protections and social security will be eliminated or so dismantled that they will hardly matter.
Then, when I show my children the pictures of John Kerry, holding the pictures of them when he and I talked about this election being about "our children's future" and the pictures of me with my children in several swing states campaigning for Kerry, and of the night before the election in Cleveland where I was within 15 feet from the stage and heard him saying that he was "fighting for us" and then I will tell them about how on January 6th, 2005, Kerry did not show up to speak or vote or fight for those voter rights and after their Mommy had worked hard at raising over $30,000.00 for the "GELAC" Fund that was supposed to pay for challenges and investigations into voter fraud and legal challenges, and how instead, Kerry "conceded" in less then 24 hours of the polls closing and that all votes were not counted and that for two months, he basically did....NEXT TO NOTHING....
Then I will point to a picture of my 4 year old in the arms of Howard Dean, and tell her about her comment that she said to me "I thought he was going to be President, Mommy?"
He should have been dear, he should have been....
Honestly, the most extreme ones over at DU feel as if all reality at they know it has been turned inside out.
Don't worry, within a few hours this will have been a "great victory" in the "long-running chess game" and once again they will be saying "I believe".
Well hey at least the poster can spell.
What an idiot. A much higher number of people voted in each party, the vote was nearly 51 / 49 and except for a few Dim attacking Republican HQs, the election was held in peace. How much more democracy can you get that this?
I'm sorry, I did not read past the first paragraph. Was the rest of it as stupid?
I once took a class on how to take a stand to take a stand
They'll both say, "Mom, we're Republicans."
"January 6th, 2005 was the day the Democratic Party and Democracy died in America."
Only in your mind, lady.
Laughing--coughing--can't breathe.
She does seem to be circling the bowl, doesn't she?
Do you think this is the picture of John Kerry he will be showing his children?!
"Democracy" to the hard left is defined as "the hard left in power." Cf. the German "Democratic" Republic, the "Democratic" Peoples' Republic of Korea, etc.
I purt neer almost feel sorry for Canada. Heads up, here dey come!
Simple: They desire power over principle. Kerry was supposedly the "most electable" of the Ten Dwarves (or however many there were), so they sold the others out in order to Get Bush.
It's worse. Read on......
Substitute Socialist for Democratic, and Socialism for Democracy, in this article, and it is basically correct.
LMAO! Those poor kids.
I signed up for that course, before I didn't.
Here's another beaut.
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