DFA Poll

Written by: Karen Kostoff on Oct 26, 2007 4:40 AM EDT

Hi DFA Friends and Members;

I am surprised to see so many people flooding the DFA poll with votes for Al Gore.  I love Al Gore.  I'm so proud and happy for Al Gore and all his accomplishments.  Probably one of my first political writings was asking people to vote for Al Gore in late summer of 2000 when I saw all the political pundits turn on him and suddenly start the 'george bush would be great to have a beer with' lines.  After all there wasn't much else they could come up with that was positive about his (bush) experiences, foreign policy or basic grammar.

 I knew so many people that liked Ralph Nader but I pleaded with them to think about that vote.  If it was wasted on Nader by taking votes from Gore....we'd lose.  We did lose but Al Gore actually won as we know now.

 He has come a long way since then doing so much to see that we are informed of the seriousness of global warming.  I feel he's found his niche and will continue to be a great contributor to our country and world.

I wish he would have fought longer and harder in 2000.  I thought so then and I believe it still.  We Democrats are mad at our Democratic leaders now, saying they don't have the courage to stand up for what we want and believe.  Well, I think the 2000 election was the beginning of us not standing up when we should have.

We talk about being polarized and not being able to get things done.  Yet we seem to be clamoring to follow the candidates that would keep us polarized.  We need to vote for someone that can bring us together.  We are Americans and need to vote for someone that can appeal as much as possible to both sides of the aisle and Americans regardless of their party affiliation.

 In order to move our country forward, I personally believe we need to support John Edwards. 

Do a visualization of your candidate in office.  Could he or she see things get passed in Congress any better than in recent years?  Think of your candidate and the credibility they will have with our Congressmen and women.  Will Congress care to adopt your candidates policies?  Think of who would really work the best with all sides or think of who may only infuriate the other side more and nothing will get accomplished and the partisanship will continue to have all of us at odds instead of accomplishing things for our country.

So much as we can say we have a great slate of Democratic candidates, will all of them even get the opportunity to change our country, move it forward and regain our respect and traditions?

I'm just tossing some things out there for us all to think about as I keep running into people who know better but keep repeating the Media Mantras instead of thinking for themselves. As an American with the opportunity to vote for change and the betterment of our country it is something to seriously think about and not let someone or something make that decision for you..

Think on it. 

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