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Rayilyn Brown wrote:

>>    I Need a President - Again
>>    By John Cory
>>    t r u t h o u t | Perspective     Tuesday 26 October 2004     I first
>>wrote "I Need a President" during the disastrous end of the 2000 Election. I
>>ended my piece with these words: "Yes, I need a president. But I must wait for
>>now."     The time of waiting is over.     I need a President who does not
>>believe in suppressing votes as he clings to a warped sense of his own
>>entitlement to power. I need a President who does not fear the voice of the people.
>>Not the President of a sanitized America-by-invitation-only, but a President
>>of the people, by the people, and for the people.     I need a President who
>>recognizes that America is a member of the world community and not its master.
>>I need a President who faces the world with a welcoming hand, not a closed
>>fist. A man who embraces questions, and not the coercive rule of unchallenged
>>reign.     I need a President who believes science is a tool for healing and
>>not just a profitable device for the creation of Smart Bombs and Weapons of
>>Mass Destruction. I need a President who sees that stem cell research benefits
>>not only the diseased but also the soldiers with spinal cord wounds and
>>brain trauma inflicted in their service to America.     I need a President for
>>whom "liberal education" is not a partisan pejorative but rather the
>>old-fashioned definition of a balanced and well-rounded education, an education not of
>>political bent, but of the beauty and diversity of life's great treasures. I
>>need a President who sees education as a right, and not a privilege only for
>>those who can afford to buy knowledge.     I need a President whose
>>environmental policy is not only for the wilderness, but also applies to the
>>workplace.     I need a President who understands that family health should never be
>>dependent on family wealth.     I need a President who knows well that secrecy
>>is a cancer on democracy. I want a President who has overcome the fear of
>>battle, not by sending others into combat, but by standing face-to-face against
>>the ravages of war and bringing honor home to the fight for peace and open
>>government.     I need a President who understands that if money is
>>free-speech, the middle class and poor will never have a voice in today's corporate
>>politics; that the dreams of Main Street America will be smothered by the greed
>>of K Street lobbyists and their financial owners.     I need a President who
>>recognizes that corporate crime should not be a reward system for crooked
>>CEOs, while punishing workers with financial ruin. I need a President for whom
>>accountability is not a bookkeeping technique that ensures increased stock
>>value at the cost of American jobs.     I need a President who knows that God is
>>not spelled G-O-P.     I need a President who recognizes the requirement for
>>checks and balances on government, not checkpoints on citizens.     I need a
>>President for whom liberty is not a license to plunder budget surpluses for
>>the benefit of wealthy campaign donors. I need a President, not a corporate
>>puppet, or a panderer to the bigotry of puritanical zealots and self-righteous
>>hypocrites.     America needs a President to whom freedom is not a focus
>>group slogan, tested as justification for the lethal lies of a manufactured war.
>>Not a President who finds humor in the deaths of soldiers in order to get a
>>laugh from the dining room divas of corporate Media.     America needs a
>>President, not a saint without human error. America needs a President who
>>recognizes his own fallibility and rises to the need for change.     America needs a
>>President whose compassion is without label or restriction, who lifts the
>>poor and ignored without making himself tall by standing on the dead and
>>downtrodden. A President who does not limit the colors of America to red, white and
>>blue, but includes each and every variation that weaves the whole fabric of
>>this richly textured nation.     America deserves a President, not an owner.
>>    I deserve a President, not George Bush.
>>    John Cory is a Vietnam veteran. He received the Purple Heart and Bronze
>>Star with V device, 1969 - 1970.   -------
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