Update:
I’ve
tinkered with the site a bit, added several bits to the blog and on the
message boards, but without a decent html editor on my system, I haven’t had
the patience to do much with the home page. I would like to focus not so much
on coding, but on content.
The
primary focus here will be on the blog and on the message boards. I will add pieces of writing to this
home page occasionally, but mostly I’d like to focus on discussing the issues. So far there has been little
discussion, though, outside of me topically blogging on the boards. Hopefully
this will change as I have a chance to promote the site more.
If you are new here, please join the
discussion. Add your thoughts. Working together, we can accomplish
anything and everything.
Remember, change can happen
quickly and intensely with just the right mix of hope, activism and
organization.
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The
idea of fair elections, meaning that elections are fairly conducted, that
every vote is counted and that the results are trusted enough that the transition
of power is conducted peacefully, is the strongest principal that the United
States exists on. It is the bedrock that the very idea of America is
built on. It is the root of the moral authority that allows our nation
to possess the leadership role in the world that has been our privilege, in
one form or another, for over two centuries.
If
there is ever any question that the sanctity of America’s electoral process
has been violated, it must be answered.
The election in question must be thoroughly investigated and any
doubts as to the validity of the results must be resolved.
And
if any fraud or tampering is ever discovered, it must be prosecuted with the
full wrath of the American People who, through such blasphemous violence
against this nation, have had their very identities as Americans soiled,
demeaned and, perhaps, even destroyed.
Once any such questions are answered,
and especially until these questions are answered, it is the responsibility
of all who dissent, all who’s views and values are not accepted by the
standing government, to voice their dissent, to stand up and to display their
views for all to see and to challenge the standing government and the very
system itself. It is vital that the minority is not brushed aside and forgotten.
If the sanctity of our electoral
process is the bedrock of our democracy, then freedom of speech, dissent and
the rights of those in the minority to have a welcome place in the
conversation that is our government are the foundations of America, the foundations
that support everything we, as a nation, hold dear.
This
year there is a real chance that both the bedrock and the foundation our
country will be irreparably damaged. Damaged in such a way that our country
may never recover. We, as a nation, regardless of our personal beliefs and
religious values, cannot allow this to happen.
This website hopes to be a small voice
shouting out against such a catastrophe. Even more, it hopes to help others
find their small voices so that, speaking together, we can make a noise too
loud to be ignored or denied.
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11-02-04: The
Election of George W. Bush
Lowering the Bar:
A Mandate for GWB?
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Lowering the Bar: A Mandate for GWB?
Even as I am writing this there is a
talking head (Joe Walkins, Republican Strategist) on CNN demanding that the
Bush Administration has a mandate because “they won by three and a half
million votes!”
I don’t have
the time this morning to do the research but I am pretty sure it would take
only a few minutes on-line to track down some quotes from 1996 and even 1992
talking about how Bill Clinton’s victories in those years did not constitute
a mandate, though both margins in the popular vote far outweigh the margin of
victory this year.
In
fact, not counting the ugly stepchild of the 2000 election, the popular vote
this year was the closest race since Jimmy Carter defeated Ford 28 years ago
in the 1976 election by 1,682,790 votes.
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11-02-04: The Election of George W. Bush as
President of the United States Of America…
So,
it happened...Now what do we do about it? More than that, what do we do with
the real threat of losing the Democratic Party as a viable voice of
opposition to the Republican controlled Executive and Legislative branches of
our Federal Government, and to increasing Republican control of our State and
Local Governments, as well?
On November 2, 2004 we lost a
battle, but we did not lose the war. However, we must not roll over. We must
not lose track of that tremendous store of energy that the Democrats mustered
for this election. At the same time, we also must take a hard look at why the
Presidency was lost and at why seats in both houses of Congress were lost.
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