I have the same sense of disillusionment, heartache and disorientation that I felt during Katrina

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

because of the funding vote. I know -

"get over it"
"we wouldn't have won"
"long term strategy . . . blah blah"

When Katrina happened and people were dying on TV, I kept thinking "Where ARE they?"

Well, it's exactly the same feeling. And like a very moving post in Daily Kos about Katrina, you suddenly realize

"THEY AREN'T COMING!"

in fact they have no intention of being knights on horses and rescuing anything like: our soldiers, our Constitution, our moral core

They have no horses and they are not knights.

They travel by campaign bus and rescues are not on the agenda. But maybe next year.

[DKRC]

1. You're not alone in your feelings.

I don't have the answers you're looking for - never been mistaken for a knight in or out of armor - but we're all trying to figure out how to save ourselves since no one else appears to be coming to our rescue.

Just know, you aren't as alone as you feel sometimes.
:hug:

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. Thanks! I know I'm not alone and that others feel like me

I appreciate you taking the time to say so.

Some things you just don't "get over".

And you shouldn't.

[YvonneCa]

3. Have you read Al Gore's book...

... "The Assault on Reason" yet???

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3285245&mesg_id=3285245

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Yes, I'm reading it now

and I'm deriving hope from the simple fact that it isn't dumbed down for the lowest common denominator. It is rich and dense in a way that I haven't experienced lately.

I saw AG's speech on MLM day 2 years ago and just about cried because someone respected, in a position of power was speaking about the readily evident truth of our life in the regime of GWB. And, then, nothing from the MSM. Even though a former VP gave the most damning, eloquent speech about the perversion of the Constitution under GWB. Not newsworthy. Gosh, we had to think about runaway brides and missing Aruba blondes.

Thank God he wrote the book to directly bypass our pathetic, complicit, lazy, corrupted press. I hope he single-handedly brings back the power of the written word. I am just about ready to turn off the TV and cancel cable and live off the internet and Netflix.

[YvonneCa]

7. Don't turn it off, yet...

...Al Gore has been all over it during the past week. :7

[SergeyDovlatov]

4. ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country

you are on your own and they are in the campaign bus.

[applegrove]

5. People who speak for the troops didn't want to see Bush play chicken with

the war funding. That would have been devastating. Bush is cold-blooded enough to have repeatedly vetoed the bill. It was a Sophie's choice. No good outcome. Unfortunately forcing Sophie's choices on the Dems is what Bush and his ilk do best. Fortunately they have fewer opportunities because the Dems won the house and the Senate. But given Bush control over the troops on the ground..he held the absolute power over the troops. The dems just would have had to capitulate after the troops were begining to hurt. How I see it anyway.