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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
  Reclaiming the Party of Lincoln
I posted this entry before, but I'm posting it again, with a postscript.

The founding principle of this blog has always been that it's not about me, but about the books. That's a good principle, but as my great friend Archie Goodwin has said, "There are times when a principle should take a nap."

In the light of recent events, I cannot fail to say to George Bush's corporate masters, "You are damned to hell."

You thought you were so cute arranging the election of your puppet to the presidency. And you thought it was really funny when he created a vast pool of desperate unemployed people who would work for you without paid holidays or health insurance. I'm sure you chuckled all the way to the bank.

But your puppet has destroyed the hopes of all humanity for a decent world and you are responsible. The horror and destruction that the future will bring -- it's your fault.

The rape of an Iraqi teenager and the murder of her family, including her seven-year-old sister, that's your fault. You did it, and Saint Peter, although he himself betrayed Jesus three times, will not waste two seconds on you. You betray Jesus every day in everything you do, contaminating the environment for your own gain and trampling the hopes of honest workers for a decent life.

Do you expect to blame it all on the slack-jawed moron you selected as your puppet? Everyone knows he has fewer brains than Alfred E. Newman. He's your man. He's doing your bidding and you will be held responsible.

Damn you to hell. I and all the decent people of America are your enemies forever.


Postscript: Let's retake the party of Abraham Lincoln and restore it to his principles. Let's us decent folk start joining the Republican Party all over the country and kick out these morons who start wars for political gain. If you have a purple mohawk, I want YOU to join the Republican Party, and everyone else, too. Think of it as a favor to Honest Abe.

How many friends do you have? Those friends, along with their friends, and you could take over the local Republican Town Committee. You'd be disarming the buttheads who sow hatred all over the world. Interested? email me
 
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Stephen Hartshorne worked in newspapers and magazines around New England for many years and served as Information Officer in the New Hampshire Senate under Senate President Vesta Roy. He worked as a material handler for nine years at the Yankee Candle Company until the company was taken over by corporate weasels. He is currently the associate editor of GoNOMAD.com, an alternative travel website, which gives him the opportunity to correspond with writers and photographers all over the world. He lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts, with his daughter Sarah, a student at Drew University, and their cat, Dwight D. Eisenmeower. This blog is dedicated to his mom, who made him bookish.

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