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Why? Why? Why? Good lord I'm sick of all the whining. If I hear one more liberal say the word Canada, I'm going to projectile vomit. Did Kerry's campaign fail yes, all the more reason to redouble our eforts. The campaign choose caution not boldness so to not offend the undecideds. Who, as we all know, are living under a rock. Bush successfully soothed and reassured those who longed feel safe rather than challenged and inspired. The campaign was timid, spinless, walking on eggshells stragtegy with no central theme or "moral" vision played right into Bush & Co.'s protrayal of Kerry as unprincipled- who stood for nothing The WMD are here in the USA, fear, ignorance, intolerance and religious righteousness, and the media played right along. Now that we know where the WMD are, we must redouble our efforts and reclaim "moral values" as our own. Did anyone notice that Bushie dropped the "family matters" after the debates began? Why is that you reckon? The weak are attracted to, and will even die for, the glamour of force. How else could something so outrageous as war even occur? Bush and his resolve may have seized the upper hand temporarily, and the weak are attracted by those who seem to have overcome weakness. How else could dictatorship be possible? Using force is arrogance. True power is characterized by humility. Force is pompous- it has all the answers. Power is unassuming. Bush relied upon rhetoric, progaganda, and specious argument to garner suppport and disguise underlying motivations. Truth, needs no defense, it's self-evident. Our power must be associated with that which supports life. Using force is associated with that which exploits life for the gain of an individual or an organization. Using force is divisive and, through that divisveness, weakens, whereas power unifies. Force and fear polarizes. True statesmen serve the people, politicians exploit people to serve their own ambitions. Statesmen sacrifice themselves to serve others. Politicians sacrifice others to serve themselves. Power appeals to our highter nature, force to our lower nature. Force is limited, wheras true power is unlimited. Democrocay recognizes the divine right of the ruled, rather than the ruler. Learning the DIFFERECE between principles and their imitatiors requires experience and educated judgement. The exercise of such discretion is necessary for moral survival in the modern world in general, but it is IMPERATIVE in those grayest of areas, where ethical ambiguity has been elevated from convention to art form: the political arena and the marketplace of daily commerce. Just as the rationalization that the execution of criminals deters crime, for instance, doesn't hold up under study, and the end does not justify the means. The consequence of this violation of principle is reflected in the crime statistics of the United States, where murder is so common it doesn't even make the newspapers' front pages. The results of children seeing violence is that they becom less sensitive to pain and suffering of others, more fearful and hehave in agressive or harmful ways. Why are Americans filled with rage towards one another? Why is this so? Where were the seeds of rage sown and how does it grow and blossom? This question and many others can be found when we begen to listen to one another and want to understand. Look into the abyss. Axis of Greed or Axis of Logic?

Very eloquent. One of my first reactions to the news was that of complete disappointment for my country. I thought about moving to Canada or the UK, along with many of my other friends. But I do care about this country and I'm not about to give it up to those that very well might cause it's ultimate downfall.

GO MULE!

Beautiful statement by Mark Morford and by Mule above. Keep up the beautiful work of seeing through to the truth and speaking it for us. It helps.

Thank you Yo Yo Bo. The founders of the world's great "religions" would be shocked at the profoundly un-spiritual deeds wrough in their names through history-many of which would make a heathen shudder. Brute force always distorts truth for its own self-serving purposes. Over time, the spiritural priniciples upon which religions are based become distorted for expedient ends, such as power, money, and other worldliness. The spiritual is tolerant, yet religiosity is commonly intolerant, the former leads to peace, the latter to strife, bloodshed, and pious criminality. There remains, however, buried within every religion, the spiritual foundation that it originated from. Like religions, entire cultures are weakened with the principles that they're based upon are obscured or contaminated by false interpretation. To more fully understand the nature of spirit in power and how it originates and operates as a social organization of enormous power and influence-about which everthing is public record-one that's avowedly aligned with the spirit of man, yet flatly states that it is not religious. That is the 55-year old organization known as Alcoholics Anonymous- Which of course is where Mr. Bush should have sought spiritual advice, in light of his life long addcition.