A Disappointing Day in U.S. politics.

I honestly thought John F. Kerry had enough support to beat George W. Bush in this extremely important election. I am disappointed by the results and can only hope that all those votes to still be counted in Ohio are for Kerry (though I am not counting on it, as it is a long shot.) This is a snippit from an article about the election that I feel reprsents why I voted.

"Our current leadership seems to have lost its way and its moral compass. Dishonesty has become a national policy. We have been asked to debase our Constitution for political purposes, to enshrine bigotry and to take away fundamental rights from Americans. We have abandoned scientific and medical research, bowing to narrow religious beliefs. We have handed over even more of our national wealth to the rich and taken it from the poor and the workingman. We have gone to war for reasons that have been proved wrong, and we have sanctioned torture as acceptable policy. We must not make war on other nations because we hear God telling us who is evil. We must not unleash the terror of war – death and destruction and the inevitable murder of innocents – as if it were some God given right. The fear of terrorism cannot be used to cover up secret agendas and policy failures nor to curtail the rights handed down to us by the Founding Fathers for generation after generation, through crisis after crisis, from president to president."

On the upside though, Barak Obama swept IL for a spot on the U.S. Senate! Woo Hoo!! But I am disappointed to see Tom Daschale not be re-elected for a fourth term from South Dakota...