And yet… and yet….
Exit polls suggested John Kerry won in 2004. And in 2000, Gore recorded more than half-a-million more votes than u-no-hu and was still denied the presidency.
Had all votes been honored, it's likely 9/11 would've been prevented, that a million innocent Iraqis would be alive, the battle against global warming would have an eight-year head start, energy independence would be more than a pipedream, our banks just might be solvent, we'd likely be on our way to universal healthcare, old-growth forests would still be intact and mountaintop removal would be passe.
Heaven help us. We can’t let what happened to Gore happen again.
We need a theft-proof, Electoral College-proof, Supreme Court-proof, hanging-chad-proof margin of victory.
And so I’m urging all my friends and relations, be they Republican, Democrat or Independent, be they black, red, white, blue, orange or green…
This once vote with the hopeful part of your heart--for peace, reconciliation, diplomacy, sane energy and environmental policies, for research and development and action on global warming--and NOT with the crouching, distrustful part that advocates bankrupting our children to build nukes we don't need, fight more wars we don't need, give fossil fuel companies tax breaks they don’t need, embrace torture we don't need and other affronts to civil liberties. Help reclaim our nation.
There's a new day coming. Be part of it by casting a vote for Barack Obama.
And wake me when it's over.
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