Can John Kerry cure cancer?- Mark Morford

[Clinton Crusader]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/10/15/notes101504.DTL

Miracle worker or no, after the tyranny of BushCo, a "normal" prez will be a blessed relief

By Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle

There will not be a great parting of the clouds.

There will not be brighter flowers and happier puppies. There will not be massive choruses of angels singing and birds chirping and dolphins finally standing upright and speaking fluent Latin and saying we knew it all along.

Let's be real: Should Kerry win this election, we are most likely not in for a spectacular and unprecedented ride of shiny progressive glory that will astound the world and reignite the collective soul and float us all to the hereafter on golden wings of sparkly well-lubed bliss. OK?

I know, this is not a popular angle. After all, we desperately need this feeling.

We need to be ignited by raw hope and urgent hyperbole and to feel that some massive, silly platitude is at work, some hollow line like Reagan's infamous "morning in America," supposedly heralding a huge transformational rebirth and not, as Reagan actually brought, massive
deficits, and ignorance, and homophobia, and corporate welfare and deregulation and environmental destruction and class warfare and self-righteous conservative indignation, amen.
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