Fool us once shame on you - fool us twice shame on us

[Ugnmoose]

I am not quite sure what to make of what took place today. My left brain tells me this was all one great big show to appease us activists. My right brain tells me that it is part of a plan designed to make some meaningful changes in our voting systems.

Right now my left brain is winning. Why? Well, we had this experience in 2000 and we all said "never again". There was this great uproar about reforming the voting system, Congress even went about passing HAVA. Big Deal! But the Democratic Party knew full well almost from the get go that there was no sincerity on the part of the opposition to reform the system. They knew full well that voting machines could and likely would be rigged. They knew full well that major efforts were being made by Blackwell and others to suppress the vote in Ohio and elsewhere. They put 17,000 lawyers on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote. What a joke.

So now here we are again, victimized in another stolen election and what do our Dem electeds do? They puff out their chests and bellow about abuses in the system and how we need to make changes. Have we not learned anything from the past? Why should we be proud of our accomplishments today? Yes we got it into the public record that abuses took place - so what. Will this be any solace to the tens of thousands of people who waited five or more hours in the rain in Ohio to vote only to find out there vote was never counted or worse yet switched to the other party?

To me vote fraud is the most serious crime that could be perpetrated on the American people. The fact that this crime was not vigorously contested sends a woeful message to all those who love and cherish our liberties and freedoms. While historic in nature, today will not go down in our history as one of our finest moments.

My right brain now tells me to look to the future and never give up fighting for what we all know is right. The only straw I can grasp is the comfort of being with my fellow activists here at DU as we continue to battle to win back our democracy. God Bless Us All and I think we will need all the blessings we can get.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. I can't resist.....

[scottxyz]

2. The rationalizations we saw today...

...remind me of the rationalizations you hear from a person in an abusive relationship.

When they're still in it, they try to grasp at any kind of straws, thinking it's not all that bad, or it might get better later.

It won't. The Republicans have stolen 2 elections in a row now. The American electoral system no longer reflects the will of the people, and since nobody knows how to fix it, it will eventually be replaced by something else that does.

[Benhurst]

4. It is finished.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. If all the DEms had voted YES, and stood together, it WOULD have gone down

in history, and we would have had something to be proud of. There was no message of Democratic unity sent to either the voters or the Repukes.
As it is , I am not confident that the same exact voting fraud will not happen again in 2006.

To me vote fraud is the most serious crime that could be perpetrated on the American people. The fact that this crime was not vigorously contested sends a woeful message to all those who love and cherish our liberties and freedoms. While historic in nature, today will not go down in our history as one of our finest moments.