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To: Clappy who wrote (31843)	1/26/2004 10:56:15 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104167

NoPoliticoClappo- good post. good thoughts. thanks to early voting by mail, i already voted for dean a couple of weeks ago. my favorite was carol. she was on the ballot and i could have voted for her... (the perils of early voting) she's already dropped out of the race. also, this was before dean's iowa concession screech <VBG> i did not like it sam-i-am i don't like screamers, thank you mam. but it didn't scare me and i don't act from fear anyway. dean is not my ideal choice, but he's been a blessing to the democrats this year - he's the only one willing to sacrifice his political ambitions by speaking the truth. he is the sole reason that the other candidates have been able to challenge bush. it was painful to watch all the sitting democrats afraid to speak out... the biggest disappointment for me was to watch your senator clinton put a wet finger up into the wind and follow bush into iraq. i know politics. i know you lose your political power if you jump outside the "good ol' boy network". the tiptoe dance... where you keep on the good side of the washington power structure while subtly slipping in progressive thought and legislation was something the clintons were masterful at doing. more progress was made for progressive causes during the clinton administration than in ANY previous administration. BUT howard dean has crossed that line. it's killing his chances, but it's moving us closer to the day that citizens, instead of political wheeler-dealers, will control their own destiny... that will be the day that will live in the history books as the birth of democratic freedom. and it's not howard that's behind this movement, it's the people involved in his campaign. it's the internet that makes it so easy for this movement to be involved and to show their strength and their frustration for being left out of the process by everyone else except howard. it's exactly that movement and that "people power" that i'm supporting with everything i've got. there's no ONE person that is nearly as smart or as capable as all of us thinking together... and it's vitally important that we see that reality. it's important that we support ourselves and the NETWORK, the people's dreams... and NOT a single figurehead for president. howard dean is the only one who has admitted that if we vote for him, we're not voting for HIM we're voting for a new way of governance that IS the voice of the people. he may not win. WE may not win. but because of his commitment to that goal, the birth of democratic freedom is one step closer to being a reality. if it doesn't come now... at least we will have had a taste of the fruit... we will be one step closer and one day we will prevail in government by the people. i'll certainly support "anyone but bush" and i hope the democrats nominate "anyone but bush". at the same time, i hope that nominee will look at the NETWORK... understand it's power... and nurture it. -nopoliticopolvo <g>