What does our nation need at this time ?

kentuck

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:23 AM
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What does our nation need at this time ?

We need leadership. We need compassion. We need inspiration. We need a vision. There is no indication any of these will appear anytime soon.

What we don't need? We don't need more divisions. We don't need more taxcuts for the wealthy. We don't need more bullshit.

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Why Syzygy

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:27 AM
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1. Bingo!

As I clicked on your link, I said out loud "Leadership".

You got that right. We have a chickenhawk. A fall on the pretzel bozo.

WE WANT A LEADER! Dammit. Give me Bill Clinton. Not his wife, please.

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Triana

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:27 AM
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2. A President Would be Nice (n/t)

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punpirate

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:30 AM
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3. What we need most...

... are a few days respite from the continual onslaught of the Bush juggernaut, just to collect our wits.

I say that only partly facetiously. :)

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KoKo

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:48 AM
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8. That would be a big help.

Every day there's a new onslaught from them. I've read the Think Tanks are keeping the Agenda going for them. Their list was long and they've been writing it for decades.

I'm sick of it, too. And we don't seem to have many Dems in Congress and House that can handle it all. Dems are so overwhelmed at times they seem out of touch. But, it's probably because it's "unrelenting."

It's worn us down here on the "internets" trying to keep up with it all, for sure. :-(

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punpirate

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:51 AM
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9. Maybe a fellow named...

... Fitzgerald will put them on the defensive for a while. :)

That would provide a nice break.

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KoKo

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Sat Sep-24-05 08:44 AM
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10. BTW, "punpirate" Peggy Noonan agrees with us....

Edited on Sat Sep-24-05 08:46 AM by KoKo01

Check out this quote from her interesting editorial in WSJ. Someone posted it here just after I read your post. :D

'Whatever It Takes'
Is Bush's big spending a bridge to nowhere?

Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

At any rate, Republican officials start diminishing Ronald Reagan, it is a bad sign about where they are psychologically. In the White House of George H.W. Bush they called the Reagan administration "the pre-Bush era." See where it got them.

Sometimes I think the Bush White House needs to be told: It's good to be a revolutionary. But do you guys really need to be opening up endless new fronts? Do you need--metaphor switch--seven or eight big pots boiling on the stove all at the same time? You think the kitchen and the house might get a little too hot that way?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

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Chipper Chat

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:32 AM
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4. We need control of Congress next fall.

That would open up a lot of goodies to make ReSucklicans squirm. Investigations! Committee chairmanships! Power! Truth! Wisdom. An exit strategy for Iraq. No more wars. Intelligent leadership. More Nancy Pelosi, less Denny Has-been.
Should I go on?
Hey voters - it's up to you.
Deep Six the fundies!

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FloridaPat

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:39 AM
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5. We also need truth. But I don't think there's an ounce of truth in DC

from either side of the fence.

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Oakland

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:45 AM
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6. What do we need first?

We need real Democrats in the Democratic Party.

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greekspeak

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Sat Sep-24-05 07:47 AM
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7. I would settle for an opposition party right now

But we aren't even getting that. What do we have going for us? The CBC. I cannot applaud its members enough for their guts to stand up and call bullshit when they see it.

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LandOLincoln

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Sat Sep-24-05 08:56 AM
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11. We need Wesley K. Clark in the White House, that's what

we need.

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snippy

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Sat Sep-24-05 09:30 AM
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12. We need a more powerful pretzel. n/t

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cassiepriam

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Sun Sep-25-05 11:45 AM
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13. Citizens with brains, courage, morality. Where are they? NT

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