Joe Galloway Commentary: They’ve squandered lives, fortunes and our sacred honor

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http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/55165.html

Commentary: They’ve squandered lives, fortunes and our sacred honor
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers


Here’s to the American people, the electorate, for finally coming to their senses and voting for something different, for someone different and for a chance to fix the multitude of man-made disasters that confront us.

By their votes, the Republican revolution and all it's wrought — an economic meltdown, two endless wars, class warfare that’s enriched the very rich and beggared everyone else and a treasury bulging only with IOU's — will be crushed.

That revolution began to take root with the criminality of Richard Nixon's administration, with its paranoid enemies list. It gathered steam in the time of Ronald Reagan and with Newt Gingrich’s seizure of Congress.

To be sure, there have been pauses, first during Jimmy Carter's four years and then during Bill Clinton’s eight, in the GOP's rush to recover — with interest — the presidential power that Nixon lost to a second-rate burglary and assorted other dirty tricks.

High tide arrived with the unlikeliest occupant of the Oval Office in our history, the beady-eyed, smirking, tongue-tied, counterfeit cowboy George W. Bush, and a Congress that after 9-11 was run by runaway Republicans who were too busy enriching themselves and their friends to care what their president was doing to the country, the Constitution and even their own party.

Little wonder, then, that Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin will go down to defeat after a campaign of sheer desperation that’s been nasty, brutish and long.

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For these and far too many other sins and transgressions to list in so short a space as this, we the people have every right, and perhaps a duty, to cast them aside, and with them their only hope of avoiding justice and judgment — John McCain, who voted with them 90 percent of the time.

We're right to toss them all aside, and to hope and pray that it's not too late to start repairing the damage they've done to a nation that once was the last, best hope of mankind.

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1. Word. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Very powerful and eloquent.

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3. The Yahoo's site latest headline:

Breaking down the numbers
Barack Obama is polling ahead, but John McCain has a bigger chance than it first appears.
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Obama has people voting for him, but McCain has the Mainstream Media, who happen to be the people who announce who wins.

This may not go down so easily as we'd like.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Nothin' plus nothin' is nothin'

One of the most idiotic headlines I have ever seen.
It looks like something from The Onion.

[truedelphi]

5. My husband considers the Yahoo headlines an abomination

He gets especially upset over things like:
Obama could be nation's first black president

Followed immediately by a secondary headline of:
Crime goes up in black neighborhoods

Et Cetera