Hey, Amos:

I don't consider you a whinger (Martin and I part company here.) I think that a serious problem in this country is how uninformed the populace is. When Bush proposes to cut government support for tuition for the poor by 30 or 40% it's relegated to one paragraph on page 18 in the paper, if it's covered at all. If this country is to vote intelligently, they need to be well informed. It is the foundation of Democracy, and without a well-informed populace, dictatorships will arise under the guise of Democracy. I applaud what you are doing. My issue lies elsewhere.. the apparent unwillingness of those who believe in the Democratic to take a hard look at what we're doing wrong, and how we've lost touch with this country, rather than taking the more entertaining path of focusing our energy completely on what the republicans are doing.

This last election proved pretty conclusively to me that you can't win on an "Anyone is better than him" strategy.

Jerry