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Overnight Open Thread: This Is Our Country

By Jeralyn

Now that the Republican Convention has ended, it's time for the rest of us to remember This is Our Country, and John McCain, Sarah Palin, James Dobson and the radical right can't have it.

I took this video in Des Moines at a campaign event for John Edwards. I chose it because he has the audience -- all Democrats -- sign along with him on the refrain, "This is Our Country."

We need to remember this in the next 60 days. The country that George Bush and the Republicans stole in 2000 and kept in 2004 belongs to us. Eight long and miserable years later, it's up to us to take it back. [More...]

John McCain has sold his soul to the evangelical right to save his losing campaign. The quid pro quo was a religious extremist like Sarah Palin on the ticket.

As the radical right now begins to fill John McCain's campaign coffers with fools' gold in exchange for his VP pick, put your money where your heart is: with freedom.

Regardless of who you supported in the Democratic primaries, or whether you are independent and stayed out of it, if you don't want James Dobson, Focus on the Family and other extremist evangelical groups dictating the replacement of retiring Supreme Court justices and jeopardizing your freedom and constitutional rights and those of your children for the next 30 years, do your part. Support the Democratic ticket.

Any Republican would be bad for health insurance, jobs, social security, war, the economy, the environment and criminal justice reform. But John McCain's sell-out to the extremist fundamentalists he once distanced himself from -- the same groups who opposed his candidacy prior to his Palin pick -- threatens the core of our constitutional democracy.

McCain likely won't be around in 10 years to witness the lasting damage his deal with the devil brought to our country. But many of us and our children will be.

No matter how likely it seems today that the Republican ticket will implode before November (and I still believe it will) don't take a chance. Don't gamble on your children's future and the future of this country. Give now, and give often.

Back to the music: A three-fer from Leonard Cohen

• Closing Time
  (celebrating the end of the Republican Convention)

• Democracy (hopefully coming in November.)

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).