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I must say and express how I feel . This has nothing to do with candidates in specific , what it has to do with is what this feels like .
I can't separate my past from the present , I can't ignore what I went through all these years or like I hear today , lets move forword . I look at moving forword and wonder what this really means , does it mean the all is forgotten and forgiven for what this bush admin has done , well not for me .
I hear Kerry and think , well certainly yoy want to move on since I sight you as the one who made a promise to the people and we trusted you and you backed down and ran off and left us hanging with 4 more years .
I respect the Kennedy's however I don't really know how I feel about the latest gathering and rage .
as far as I am concerned all politicians have their past and faults . I have this hope when JFK held the promise but this was nothing like these days , the present times , nothing like it at all and i wonder if JFK were running for president today what would he have to say to the people . If RFK were running today what would he say to the people . Like I said the 60's were so different in so many ways that I cannot compare them to 2008 .
As an old boomer I saw the draft and the death of many friends and the hope we would never see this horror ever again but here we are in a high tech global world with all sorts of hardship and horror .
Yes we have these primaries and I am not happy watching this in fighting of being told the past doesn't matter because the past is yesterday and the day before that and 40 odd year ago .
I have a drean still rings in my ears and yet the dream was crushed many times and all is forgotten in that sense . It still matter to me because I lived through that .
We didn't have any great candidate in 2004 , today who knows , the media has the control and can frame anything anyway they chose .
So no , I don't have optimism and this drummed up hope becuase hope may inspire and gather crowds but who knows when the voting begins how many will vote and for what reason , I personally have no idea .
What I do know is what I have experienced through the years and all the hope on earth will not bring back lifes or truth , it takes more than hope and certainly will not be a moving forward when bashing and ranting and cheering play the main role .
The youth are the future , learn from past mistakes , don't make the same mistakes we did many years ago and don't forget , everyone wants the same things in life , the same basic things so don't drop your guard and buy into emotion because in politics there is no emotion , in politics you find a battle for the crown and nothing more .
I am amased that people are told to move on from the past but we are also seeing the past brought to the present with examples of comparision . This in itself is none sense .
Racism and sexism and poverty still exist in this country , JFK and MLK and RFK tried to end this , they are all gone now and cannot be brought back . No president can end these issues , it takes the people , it takes each individual not a movement to decide to leave these issues behind to effect change . Elections come along every two and four years but a population and their ideals and prejudice live on for generations .
So I am done with the insanity I see going on now . When all is said and done then deal with it and you will see how it all proves out and not one second before and don't forget there is still 11 months of the bush admin and the wars rage on .
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