The Sound of the Crowd

OK, here’s what I don’t get

According to this Newsweek poll, a majority of Americans want an alternative to Bush because they’re realizing he was deceptive at worst, dumb at best about Iraq, that his tax policies screw 99% of the people, that he has no understanding of what it means to be in a working family, that his foreign and national defense policies are making us more hated and not a lick more safe. Yet the Democrats have so far failed to yield a candidate appealing enough to make that same majority think that Bush can and will be beaten. What’s up with that? How can people want Bush replaced yet not think he will be? Don’t they know they’re the ones who can replace him? Here’s hoping a lot of them see those figures and realize there’s a lot more of us…


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