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bigmacbear) wrote2006-10-18 10:19 pm
bigmacbear) wrote2006-10-18 10:19 pm
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Keith Olbermann tells it like it is
If you read nothing else today, please read this. And watch the video if you are able (and haven't already seen it on MSNBC). Central quotes:
I am convinced that the upcoming midterm election will be the most pivotal in our lifetime, if not in the history of the Republic. If we miss this opportunity to rid the Congress of those who have betrayed their office -- if not this very nation -- by allowing this travesty to become law, or if we allow corrupt bureaucrats in high places to steal this opportunity from us by purges of voter rolls and outright fraud, then God help us all.
It's unfortunate that it has come to this, but a vote for a Republican Congresscritter (most especially a Republican Senator) is a vote for the death of the American experiment at the hands of this despot who calls himself a President.
It matters not if your particular Congresscritter is the nicest person on the planet, or if he or she has been expert at getting a bigger slice of the proverbial pie for your district or your state. It matters not if he or she is a staunch advocate of whatever interests you may have, be they right to life, right to choose, right to marry, or right to be protected from (gay) marriage. All that matters is that we must give control of Congress to the Democratic Party to have any hope of restoring this nation to the freedom and sanity it must have to live.
Now I'm quite tempted to say a vote for an incumbent Democrat who voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is little better than a vote for a Republican. (Thankfully they are few: 32 Democrats voted for this abortion. See here for the full House roll call by party.) But I believe it's more important to wrest control of the Congress from the hands of the Republicans than to punish our own miscreants -- at least immediately. But do remember, and insist they redeem themselves when the opportunity arises to erase this heinous act from the books.
And I dare not even contemplate what will happen if this election is allowed to be stolen by Republican operatives. We have progressed from the soap box to the ballot box, and if these are taken from us, the ammunition box is all that is left.
In short, vote in this upcoming election as though your very life depends on it, because it very well might.
The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons. And, always, always wrong.
And if you think this hyperbole or hysteria, ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was president or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was president or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was president.
I am convinced that the upcoming midterm election will be the most pivotal in our lifetime, if not in the history of the Republic. If we miss this opportunity to rid the Congress of those who have betrayed their office -- if not this very nation -- by allowing this travesty to become law, or if we allow corrupt bureaucrats in high places to steal this opportunity from us by purges of voter rolls and outright fraud, then God help us all.
It's unfortunate that it has come to this, but a vote for a Republican Congresscritter (most especially a Republican Senator) is a vote for the death of the American experiment at the hands of this despot who calls himself a President.
It matters not if your particular Congresscritter is the nicest person on the planet, or if he or she has been expert at getting a bigger slice of the proverbial pie for your district or your state. It matters not if he or she is a staunch advocate of whatever interests you may have, be they right to life, right to choose, right to marry, or right to be protected from (gay) marriage. All that matters is that we must give control of Congress to the Democratic Party to have any hope of restoring this nation to the freedom and sanity it must have to live.
Now I'm quite tempted to say a vote for an incumbent Democrat who voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 is little better than a vote for a Republican. (Thankfully they are few: 32 Democrats voted for this abortion. See here for the full House roll call by party.) But I believe it's more important to wrest control of the Congress from the hands of the Republicans than to punish our own miscreants -- at least immediately. But do remember, and insist they redeem themselves when the opportunity arises to erase this heinous act from the books.
And I dare not even contemplate what will happen if this election is allowed to be stolen by Republican operatives. We have progressed from the soap box to the ballot box, and if these are taken from us, the ammunition box is all that is left.
In short, vote in this upcoming election as though your very life depends on it, because it very well might.