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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-07-05 01:14 PM
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17. Al Franken seems to take his cues from the DNC...
...and it was the DNC line that there were "irregularites" and racist vote suppression in Ohio but nothing to "change the outcome."

That's why the courageous Dems who spoke up yesterday were so limited in what they said. It was sanctioned talk. So is Franken's. (I tuned in today and heard him say that the 4,000 votes for Bush in a precinct with 600 voters was a "mistake" and these kinds of mistakes need to be rectified. Jeez. That's when I turned him off. Before that, I heard him calling BushCons on their whacko response, but they were easy pickin's, I must say. He's good at that. I've sometimes enjoyed his patient, folksy destruction of Repos. But his political line is very Dem establishment, and he is clueless on election fraud.)

I'm not dissing the Dems who stood up. Especially Conyers, Jones and Boxer. I think it took great courage to challenge any portion of this election, given BushCon thug government. And I suspect that even that was discouraged, though not forbidden, by Dem leadership.

To tell you the truth, I don't know what's going on, with Kerry conceding and all. I think we're in "Alice in Wonderland." Dems let BushCons get secret source code control of all vote tabulation, no paper trail. Take our money, life, energy, which we generously give to put Dems in the White House. They promise, promise, promise that, unlike '00, every vote will be counted. BushCons use the secret source code (obviously). Dems call it quits before the voting is over, and Kerry tootles off to Iraq, leaving raving, raging crowds of volunteers behind him, to fight for their right to vote without a leader.

Go figure. Are they suicidal? (I just don't think "corrupt" explains it.)

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