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I can't believe, after eight years of King George, there are still some people saying "there is no difference between the two parties". Last time I checked, Clinton didn't suspend habeus corpus! When people first started screaming for this in 1999-2000, it was because we on the left had gotten a little too arrogant in our control over Washington. Eight years of prosperity under a democratic president, a naked persute of that president by republicans for nothing more then sex that ended up hurting them instead, it was easy to think we were in a position to demand a little bit more. We didn't know then how bad things could still get in this day and age.
We don't have that excuse now.
These people who are calling the democrats no better then republicans have either spent the last seven years on another planet, or are living so far in the clouds they will never come down. They are expecting perfection. To all of you out there taking the Kucinich route, listen up: no party is perfect but some are worse then others, there is such a thing as the lesser of two evils. Yes, the democrats have let us down on a number of occasions, but at least if they are in power they won't abuse it nearly as bad as the republicans did. We wouldn't be liberals if we thought they would. Hillary Clinton, for all of her faults, is not George W. Bush. Would you be able to say that about a Mitt Romney or a Rudy Giuliani if they get into power? We need to stop persuing pie in the sky dreams and live in the real world.
