[Dems2008] Re: Truly depressing

I have a few more to add to your list but it's just too damn
depressing already.
Sandra

In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, "citation502" <citation502@...> wrote:
>
>
> * 4000 dead and probably ten to twenty thousand maimed, not to
> mention their families' travail and sacrifice and not to mention
all the
> Iraqis killed, maimed, and/or dislocated forever
> * Cheney as arrogant as ever about our continuing this
disaster -
> "so?" ; Bush as disinterested as ever in reality
> * lives ruined by Katrina and Rita still unrehabilitated, and a
> government that seems still largely unconcerned or unable to do
anything
> * then there's politics:
> * at a time when I wish we were long past the point where it is
> commonplace for a woman to seek the presidency, we have the only
woman
> candidate's campaign scarred by distortions and untruths; even I
was
> disappointed -- as much for us as for her -- to see the stark
conflict
> between how she described the Bosnia visit (just a week ago today
most
> recently) and the quite different videos that were shown tonight
> * at a time when we should be long past the point where it is
> commonplace for a multiracial candidate to seek the presidency, we
have
> this continuing evidence of hateful distortions from the pulpit of
> Barack's church; very troubling; living in a locale where lots of
> different languages and ethnicities are seen and heard every day, I
> guess I'd erred: our racial divide is greater than I'd thought.
> * the number of folks facing foreclosures continues to rise at a
> meteoric rate, just as inflation exacerbates things in just about
every
> cost we incur, and job growth has stalled
> * I'm not sure how anyone -- whether s/he supports Hillary,
Barack,
> or even McCain -- can be optimistic about our condition these days;
it's
> bleak as hell, no matter thru what lens one looks.
> * I think I'll turn the news off for a week or so, and hope
all of
> this goes away, or that some other candidate appears out of nowhere
to
> run a campaign that we can be happy about.
>

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