A Level Gaze

A Level Gaze

"What effect must it have on a nation if it learns no foreign languages? Probably much the same as that which a total withdrawal from society has upon an individual."
--G.C. Lichtenberg

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Dammit, Hackett!

(updated)

Get back in the race, you wuss!

You were going to take on the Republican and media establishments, and you cave to the craven, corporate-money Democratic leadership? What were they going to do, whine you to death?

After all that tough talk, you're going to go out complaining?

We need someone tough, and I'm afraid you're it. I thought you were about dragging politics out of the back rooms and putting real democracy front and center. You know, representing the people?

I believed in you, man. The nation needs you. You were willing to put your life on the line for your country. You can handle a Senate race.

p.s. Memo to Democratic Party leadership:

Dear Sirs;

Fuck You.

Sincerely,
David

UPDATE:

It seems the Law of Conservation of One Single, Solitary, Lonely Democrat Who Will Stand Up and Speak Truth and Sound Like He or She Means It has been invoked:

In what could be one of the most interesting campaigns for the U.S. House in 2006, The BRAD BLOG can now reveal that computer programmer turned electronic vote-rigging software whistleblower Clint Curtis is officially planning a run for the U.S. Congressional seat in Florida's 24th District.

The 24th Congressional District seat is currently occupied by Rep. Tom Feeney, the very man who Curtis has alleged once asked him to create a vote-rigging software prototype program back when both men worked for the software firm Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) in Oviedo, Florida.

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Curtis, formerly a "life-long Republican," became a self-described "Conservative Democrat" after his various disturbing dealings with Feeney and friends. He will be making his first public announcement about his intentions to form an exploratory campaign at a local Democratic party gathering at the Cocoa Civic Center in Brevard County this Wednesday evening.

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Curtis who, unlike both Michaud and Feeney, has never participated in a political campaign before, will have his work cut out for him. But he's faced more daunting -- and terrifying -- fights in the past. His tireless years-long effort to hold accountable those who he sees as having committed wrong-doing against this country has not come at a small cost. But that struggle may serve him well in his "good vs. evil battle."

Curtis explains that he feels he has little choice at this point but to enter the battle, and in discussing it, he expresses a sentiment heard all too rarely from Democrats these days: "I am now convinced that fearing a loss is not a valid reason for never entering the fight."

Turkee can be sent here.

posted by David at 2/14/2006 08:27:00 AM ::

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