I'm so mad I can't be here anymore I don't think.. did anyone hear the

[K Gardner]

commentator on Lou Dobbs who called Obama/Michelle and their campaign "dope, dope, dope, dopey".. and used the word at least seven times? This is obviously a fix, in from the Clinton campaign straight to CNN. There is NO excuse for name-calling like that and it is only going to get uglier. I'm going to end up gone if I stay, so I'll check in here. Hopefully we'll have a big win tomorrow night and it will push this crap out of the news cycle.

[TayTay]

1. Don't let the people who think "hope" is some kind of 4 letter naughty word

get to you. They want you to get made and lose the focus on what is really going on here. They figure that if they can drag you down into the mud then they will win.

Don't let 'em do it. Find some friends, talk to some other Obama supporters, remember why you came here and what it is ****you******* believe in and hold tight to it.

It's going to be a long 9 months to election day. We can all get through it together. Don't let the doubters and the naysayers get to you. There are always people a plenty in the world who will tell you why you can't do something. Stay in here and get inspired by the people who can tell you why you can do something.

[stillcool]

2. I can't do it anymore..

my husband watches MSNBC and I have to go in the other room and turn on music. It infuriates me, and it makes me feel so defeated. Thank goodness we still have the internets. Here's a rant...just for you!

Network (1976)

Arthur Jensen:
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it, is that clear?!You think you have merely stopped a business deal - that is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians! There are no Arabs! There are no Third Worlds! There is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars! Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone!

He pauses for a moment - and speaks normally with a question to Beale, but then continues:

Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT and T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon - those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state - Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories and mini-max solutions and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale.
http://www.filmsite.org/netw3.html

[sandnsea]

3. That's what they want

It's the only way they can keep the people from claiming our democracy. We have to fight like we've never fought. He is not kidding. Our time is NOW. If not now, I really don't know when. Don't let them get you down. When you hear that stuff, go grab a couple of phone numbers off the online site. It always makes me feel better to talk to real people. :hug: