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Feb 10, 2008

Posted by : Jon Clausen

A Republican reader of the Daily Dish writes a passionate summary of her current political animus towards her party:

Out here it takes two adults in a house to maintain any semblance of a decent living. We can't afford three dollar-a-gallon gas, we can't afford a two-thousand dollar a month house payment, we can't afford health insurance, and we can't afford to keep you people in power any longer. I'm sick to death of hearing how a "terrorist" is just waiting to kick my door in, how only true "patriots" are those who turn a blind eye to shameful acts of human degredation, how the only way to "support" the troops is to continue unaccountably awarding the Pentagon billions of taxpayer dollars, and how if we want to succeed in this country we need to embrace the new "global economy", GODDAMMIT ENOUGH!!

Is it any wonder that so many of us could latch onto a message that resonates with authenticity, a message that speaks to a better America, a message of hope? Is it any wonder that Obama shines like a beacon in the face of so much darkness? We have been eight long years in a cesspool of waste, fear-mongering, lies, and criminal profiteering from ill-concieved economic and fiscal policy. This republican administration cannot end soon enough, and this is one independent white middle-class working American who will pull the lever for Obama and the democrats so hard this November that glass will break in that shining city on the hill.

And I thought I was passionate.... Wow.