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To everyone who wore a black armband today...
Just realize that there were about an equal amount of people on the other side of the aisle that felt the same way eight years ago that you feel now. Clinton-haters on the right, shake hands with the Bush-haters on the left. Okay...you have 4 years to learn that the world will not come to an end because the other half of the population is "idiotic/stupid/naive." Let's get back together in 4 more years and do our best to put the petty antics on both sides to a much calmer level.
Get over yourselves, partisans! Fundamentalism is evil...whether religious or political; you do more harm than you do good. America needs to remember that we became independent from Britain thanks to passion. But it was compromise that united us into a nation. Our govt was formed by compromising between small and large states, trade industry and agrarian labor, not to mention the continuing compromises necessary to navigate through the checks and balances of our republic's government.
Our country has messes that have occurred in the past 4 years. Let's spend the next 4 years working together to solve these problems rather than complaining about past mistakes.
Personally, I think that even though Bush is still in the White House, the fact that Tom Daschle was defeated and (I just read a quick blurb on this) John "666" Ashcroft is stepping down seems to be a sign that 2 of the top vitriolic figures in D.C. won't be there to muck things up.
Just realize that there were about an equal amount of people on the other side of the aisle that felt the same way eight years ago that you feel now. Clinton-haters on the right, shake hands with the Bush-haters on the left. Okay...you have 4 years to learn that the world will not come to an end because the other half of the population is "idiotic/stupid/naive." Let's get back together in 4 more years and do our best to put the petty antics on both sides to a much calmer level.
Get over yourselves, partisans! Fundamentalism is evil...whether religious or political; you do more harm than you do good. America needs to remember that we became independent from Britain thanks to passion. But it was compromise that united us into a nation. Our govt was formed by compromising between small and large states, trade industry and agrarian labor, not to mention the continuing compromises necessary to navigate through the checks and balances of our republic's government.
Our country has messes that have occurred in the past 4 years. Let's spend the next 4 years working together to solve these problems rather than complaining about past mistakes.
Personally, I think that even though Bush is still in the White House, the fact that Tom Daschle was defeated and (I just read a quick blurb on this) John "666" Ashcroft is stepping down seems to be a sign that 2 of the top vitriolic figures in D.C. won't be there to muck things up.
