"We ain't got time to bleed."

The body of 25 year old has been found inside the "Ground Zero" site in New York City with a shotgun nearby. A friend says she believes the suicide was a protest to the election results.



To paraphrase the one-time Governor of Minnesota, "We ain't got time to bleed." This is a fight to the finish for the heart and soul of America. We will define what it is to be an American and we will not allow narrow and fearful people to take our country away. Self inflicted shotgun blasts to our own heads won't accomplish anything.



Sure, it was hard watching watching Kerry concede. And while Bush's gloating acceptance speech an hour later was about what you expected, the bleepin' press conference the next day was designed to put all of us right over the edge! "I've earned some political capital and now I'm going to spend it because that's who I am," as if George W. Bush ever devoted any effort to introspection or reasoning!



George W. Bush has also earned some political anger, and we need to capitalize on that. The first step is to tell ourselves that the American people aren't really greedy, fearful, and unthinking like they seem to be, but rather just ignorant of what's really going on. And we need to believe that once they figure it all out, there will be hell to play. (Have you yet talked to anyone who is proud to say "I voted for Bush?" In a few years, like Nixon, no one will admit having committed this atrocity.)



Is that rationalization? Sure. But there's real hope in the fact that 56 million others are, in varying degrees, as angry as you are.



And we've got to keep in mind that if the result had been just the reverse, no one would be saying that a 3 point margin gives Kerry a mandate or that it spells the death of conservativism.



Maybe it's just the bargaining phase that Kubler-Ross talked about, but there are really hopeful signs. It's like we're gradually awakening from a long trance. These last months there were legions of strangers working on political organizing who hadn't done that in decades. We've each found out that many of our neighbors share our beliefs, but they've been too fearful to speak up.



We should have been doing this all along. Shame on us for not getting started sooner. But the baby boom generation has always been slow to start and unstoppable one we get rolling.



Daily Breeze (Los Angeles) Young man shoots himself at ground zero in New York