Reply #21: I apologize for implying that you were, but on the other hand I think we need to recognize

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that a people can learn by their errors and find peaceful ways to solve their problems.

Nations experience worse failures than we have experienced in the Bush reign of error and terror. Witness Germany and Japan, nations that after 1945 thrived in the way of peace.

I was with 600,000 people who took the time - not so long ago - to march in New York in the bitter cold - 8F - to try to stop this car culture war before it started.

Not one of these Americans was lazy or indifferent.

I happened to be in Trenton today to get an absentee ballot for Tuesday's primary. All day people were filtering in they told me, for a primary...

The people who were in that office were there because they cared.

During the darkest hours of the Bush administration, my congressman, Rush Holt, spoke to us at a community meeting and told us that the genius of Americans was to readjust themselves, to recover from bad government. I really didn't believe him: I was too jaded and Bush was still at 70% approval. Our state controlled media was still blaring out some fucking nonsense about a putative "war on terror" and debating whether torture was OK.

We will all suffer for a long time because of these 8 years, that is certain, but I now feel that we can heal some, if not all, of the wounds and do it without violence.