ENOUGH!!!

[bobquasit]

Terry McAuliffe wrote to me. Bill Clinton wrote to me. John Kerry wrote to me. The DNC wrote to me many times in the form of some sort of vague corporate entity. Howard Dean wrote to me (why, Howard?). And now Hillary Clinton has written to me.

And every single bleeping one of them wrote to ask me to donate money to John Kerry's doomed campaign.

Not to help to save America. Not to meet with other like-minded people. Not to ask for ideas, or suggest things I can do to help move this country back to some semblance of sanity.

No. They want donations, and that's it.

Let me see. How can I put this so they'll understand it?

A. If you people hadn't let the Republicans screw the working class, I might actually HAVE some money to donate, and

B. WHY THE F_CK WOULD I DONATE MONEY TO A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHO FOR YEAR AFTER YEAR HAVE REFUSED TO STAND UP AGAINST THE GOP?

Just how stupid do you think I am? If I actually believed that you people would fight, I might find some way to scrape up a few dollars. But you people are one-trick ponies, and that trick has worn mighty thin.

I know damn well that I'd just be throwing my money away.

Comments

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

You know, you could invert (along partisan lines) your entire post, and then I could agree with every word of it.

As it is, I'll just echo the sentiment of extreme frustration with "the system" and the people that somehow got to be in charge of the mess on boths sides of the isle.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

There are, of course, things just as annoying. I recently got a letter (surface mail not email) from our local rep over a letter I had written him in email as part of an EFF effort to stop a misguided and badly worded piece of legislation regarding copyright law from being passed.

Basically the response from the politician was (in paraphrase) "Thanks for your letter. I'll keep your opinion in mind on this subject." In other words, I refuse to tell you what I feel or how I'll vote but I'll pretend that what you had to say will in some way affect my decision. When I get enough letters one way or another from enough people that I consider to matter I'll make up my mind on the issue, or maybe I'll wait for someone else to persuade me how to vote. In other words, I have no opinion, this is too tough an issue for me to read the facts and decide or purely act upon what my constuants want.

Wishy Washy Pandering.

Sigh.

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

I'd not count out Kerry yet. Granted that he's perhaps one of the worst
possible candidates the Demos could have ended up with, but at this point
anybody really should be able to beat Bush, and that's the thing; no
matter how ineffectual the Demos have been in dealing with the GOP (not
that, in all honesty, putting up a fight would have made any difference
with the GOP in fairly solid control of everything) they'll still do better
than the Republicans.
Also, Kerry is getting record donations for a Demo; this whole thing seems
to be working. An unfortunate reality is that in the Modern Age national
campaigns really need money for advertisements in the swing states, not Joe Average doing whatever.

Of course the Demos might lose votes in Boston in reaction to the Convention;
this thing is really a pretty pointless exercise that is going to
essentially shut the whole town down since the fraggin' Fleet Center is
right on top of much of the travel infrastructure of the city. And
Kerry won't be doing the acceptance then because he needs to keep the
ability to raise and spend money for the over a month until the GOP
convention; what twit wrote the campaign finance laws so that instead
of rigid times for the use of funds the limits are based on when the
party convention is?