Campaign '08 Update: Random Courage & Senseless Acts of Conscience

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http://words-of-power.blogspot.com/2008/11/campaign-08-update-random-courage.html

Campaign '08 Update: Random Courage & Senseless Acts of Conscience

By Richard Power

Over the next 48 hours, those of us who have lived with our eyes open, and our voices raised, for the last eight years will be struggling to keep dread in check and hope on hold. The stolen elections of 2000 and 2004 cannot be forgotten. (Click here to refresh the bitter memory.) But neither can the world's hope that the USA will choose reason over madness. (Click here to re-live an extraordinary moment.)

Yes, Clinton-Gore built a "bridge to the future." (Of course, it had some hidden tolls that many of us did not acknowledge, i.e., Telecommunications Act, NAFTA, etc. But it was a bridge nonetheless.)