I want to try to inject some peace on this site. I have been coming here since 2004 in the lead up to the Presidential election. We voted for and supported Kerry, not because he was the best candidate, but because he was the DEMOCRATIC candidate. We were enthusiastic when he took Edwards as his running mate, because, IMHO, Edwards was (and is) inspirational. After the 2004 election, when it first appeared that Kerry had won....then didn't, a lot of us felt extremely let down and, frankly depressed. I was.

We are now in the middle of a democratic "fight" between the forces of inspiration and the forces of, what originally appeared to be electability.  I was an Edwards supporter before he dropped out. In all honesty, I am an Obama supporter now.

Dear Friends and Patriots

Since you are receiving this email, you may very well be aware of the latest developments with regards to domestic spying. The federal government wants to take away the power of the courts to determine if AT&T and other Telecoms broke the law, instead seizing the power to overide the courts. It is bad enough the congress has given those in the government amnesty, it now wants to give amnesty to companies that have good enough lawyers to have known what they were doing was breaking the law. These cases important because they would determine for sure if the law was broken (and so far AT&T is losing).