Can I Change Citizenship? Please?

I am deeply ashamed to be an American today.

After everything that has happened in the past 4 years in this country, with 9-11, the stupid, unnecessary loss of lives in Iraq, and the ridiculous lies told to the American people to take us there, the total overpowering of free expression by this administration, which I have come to call "Military Dictatorship Light" or the Junta, the total collapse of the economy...I didn't think I could ever be more ashamed to be American than I already was.

Well I am today.

I simply refuse to believe that 58 million Americans think that Monkey should continue to be our leader!

Kerry blew it. He blew it big time. He did NOT do his best, the DNC did NOT do their best...they were too sure of themselves! They were SURE they could win.

They underestimated Karl Rove once again! How dare they! That man could run a Chimp (and he has!) and make him President. Once again, the DNC was too disorganized (shifting leadership every couple of weeks), too cocky and too out of touch with Middle America to see the writing on the wall.

The DNC were even touting a Kerry win on the afternoon of Election Day..saying the return polls were very high for Kerry. Well, they are ALWAYS high for Democrats at the beginning of the day...that's always been a trend. Why instill the false hope and sense of security only to see it be dashed a few hours later?

The mood at the HRC party, where I went to "celebrate" what I hoped would be a Kerry victory, went from bad to worse in a few hours and by 11pm nobody was there. It was worse than 2000.

I came back to my place and watched in horror and disbelief as Bush carried Ohio. It was truly a sad day in our country's history. A day that will live in infamy indeed!

Of course, now the media outlets are having a field day, spinning everything..."What will Bush do now!", etc...

I didn't sleep much at all last night. It was 4am before I got to bed, and then I had CNN on all night in my room. Got up at 7am to go to work and was like a zombie all day.

I wasn't alone..all my colleagues at work were the same..it was very quiet, very somber. My boss was crying when I arrived. I felt so bad for her (she's from Ohio, and she volunteered for Kerry in Ohio and PA.). Here was this 55 year old woman, sobbing..I was just hugging her and telling her it would be ok...

Being an Environmentalist..of course she's terrified of what the Monkey will do with the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve (drill for oil!-of course!), and the rapid degeneration of environmental conditions in this country. Kyoto Protocol? What's that?

And to top it all off...referenda against Gay Marriage in 11 states passed. That is, prejudice is now alive and well and needless to say, the climate for Gay people in this country has just gone from ok to bad. I suspect by the end of the Monkey's term, it will go from bad to worse.

Now that the Republicans have shown they can win by appealing to the Religious Right..and by using minorities (in this case us) as a wedge, then that's exactly what they are going to do time and time again. And the Dems (I fear) will try to re-gain the South and Midwest by doing the same.

Who does the Democratic party have to offer now? Other than Barak Obama (very promising..maybe in 2012) and Hillary Clinton (too divisive-albeit quite shrewd), I don't see any true leaders with Bill Clinton's charisma emerging. 4 years after his retirement as President, he's still the emotional leader of the Democrats! We need to stop thinking in the past--move forward! Edwards might do, but now he has the Kerry albatross around his neck. That won't help.

The only consolation I can think of, is that after 4 more years of the Junta, the Reps won't have anyone as right winged as the Monkey to run either...it'll be Giuliani or McCain (though he's a bit old and will be practically decrepit by 08) or Pataki..all pretty centrist.

In any case, time will tell what will happen. The lack of a majority in the House and Senate is really the most disturbing thing in my view. And to think! The choices the Monkey will make for Supreme Court Justices and Judges across the land. Bye bye Roe V. Wade, bye bye civil liberties of any kind, bye bye to all sorts of wonderful things that make this country worth living in.

And Daschle's loss is incredible..stupefying really. They purposely targeted him..the sons of bitches.

Well, I have to hope that everything happens for a reason. Maybe this is the way it should be...so things get so bad that in 2008 Democrats will have to prevail. Maybe it'll force the DNC to take a good long hard look at themselves and re-organize properly.

But for now...at least for the next 4 years, I prefer to tell everyone I'm Uruguayan.