Hi and thanks for all your work.  I noticed one of the 12 ways Bush stole the election was Diebold.  I just want to put my two cents in that this is the number one issue for progressives until we get it fixed.  We simply must, must get the vote back out from corporate hands.  It must be a transparent process.   Call me a whiney liberal, but I cannot believe this is happening.  If Democratic leaning corporations had control of the voting machines, the whole media would be up in arms, and everyone would be saying Kerry is an illegitimate president.

Thanks for listening to me rant.  We absolutely must make this priority #1.  The exit polls were right.

The election is over, the results are well-known,
the will of the people has clearly been shown.
Let's dump all our quarrels and show by our deeds,
that we'll give our leader the help that he needs.
So let's get together, let bitterness pass,
I'll hug your elephant; you kiss my ass.

AUSTIN, Texas --- Here's my two cents worth on "What Is to Be Done?" First of all, let me rush to join the Bill-Clinton-for-Party-Chair bandwagon (which I believe started with a Los Angles Times editorial). Granted, that means Hillary couldn't run in 2008, which is fine by me since I think she is: (A) too divisive, and (B) I worry about her safety.

So put the Big Dog in at DNC. Let him raise money, recruit candidates and plot strategy. He knows and loves politics: who better? If he doesn't want that deal, he could at least travel about to various states to help strategize.

Second, count me in the Hidden Blessing camp on the defeat of Tom Daschle. Nice man, lovely man, not enough of a fighter. I know R's like to consider Daschle guilty of colossal obstructionism and terrible, extreme partisanship hiding behind his mild-mannered demeanor. If only. That's just the R's usual game of claiming to be victims.

The big problem with Daschle is that he comes from such a red state he always faced a tough re-election fight. You can't exactly be real Out There when you're from South Dakota -- and besides, he put such a milquetoast face on the party.

Donate now to the CICJ, the Free Press' parent organization, which is spearheading the investigation into Ohio election irregularities and voter suppression.

It is not over! We do not concede. There are people working in Ohio to demand a recount of the votes in the 2004 presidential election. You can donate by credit card at Paypal or by check to: CICJ Election Protection; 1240 Bryden Road, Columbus, Ohio, 43205. The CICJ is a nonpartisan nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.

The greatest of all falsehoods visited upon the American people by the Bush Administration is that the President’s policies, both foreign and domestic, spring from the combination of a muscular Christianity and direct revelations from Almighty God to George W. Bush.

It is not Christian to invade a country which had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11, killing 100,000 innocent citizens of Iraq and causing the deaths of over a thousand Americans to achieve this horrible injustice. Jesus never committed nor advocated such a crime, nor, I assure you, did He ever tell George Bush to go forth and do so in His Name.

Jesus said, "I was born into the world to tell the truth”. Can the same be said of President Bush?

The Son of God never justified the use of torture against those imprisoned, whether in war or peacetime, neither did He believe in false imprisonment by the denial of fundamental legal and human rights.

Nowhere in the Bible do I read of Jesus Christ taking money from the poor and middle classes for the further enrichment of those whose assets already number in the billions of dollars.