The Beginning of the End

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Last night, while watching John Kerry accept the Democratic nomination to be our next President, I enjoyed a satisfying feeling that I was waking up from a long national nightmare. The nightmare began in November 2000, when my last memory before falling asleep (passing out?) on that Election Night was my wife telling me what the TV was telling the world, “George Bush is President”. Of course, like the rest of the world, I woke up to learn that he wasn’t quite President yet, and I watched with horrified fascination as the following weeks led to the travesty of our Supreme Court choosing to skip the vote counting thing and appoint their own choice as President. Ever since that moment, I have still woke up some mornings, or shaken my head to recapture my wandering mind, and I ask myself, “That didn’t really happen, did it??!!”

But it did happen. And then bad went to worst. As if it wasn’t bad enough that we had a court-appointed President, rather than an elected one, he has proven to be an absolute disaster. In my humble opinion, George Bush can easily claim his place as the absolute worst President in our countries history.

And now, with John Kerry’s speech at the Democratic Convention last night, I felt like I was witnessing the beginning of the end. Our long national nightmare won’t completely end until Kerry is inaugurated President in January 2005, but our wake up call is now, and we’ve got a lot of work to do through November. Through November, I’ll be working with a single-minded purpose, to help America wake up and leave the nightmare that has been the Bush years. But first, a few extra days here with my family to enjoy this great city of Boston, and then the beaches of Cape Cod. Thank you Boston! This was exactly the right place to start a revolution.