subject: | SpaceMonkey: You're absolutely right | | author: | Howard2 | | date: | November 6, 2004 - 10:37am | | This month I'm taking part in a program to write a 175
page novel in 30 days. Last night I didn't get a
single page done thanks to the elections. Tonight it
may be looking similar because I'm writing an open
letter to John Kerry thanking him for trying.
You're absolutely right. We tried our damndest and
lost...but we tried. I'm a firm believer in the
thinking that if your intentions are good than an act
justifies the ends, no matter what those ends might
be. We were just and right in our actions and because
of that we're already better off.
This nation will survive another four years of Bush.
We've gone through much worse.
Let's not let this defeat be our end. This is not a
defeat of our will or of our values. As my mom always
said, just put your nose to the grindstone and keep on
trucking. She's not much of a poet, but she makes
good cookies.
This is not the end. This is only the beginning.
"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer
soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink from the service of their country; but he that
stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and
woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is
dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven
knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it
would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as
FREEDOM should not be highly rated."
--Thomas Paine | | [ ] | |
