This is, as Arvonne Fraser, our colleague from Minnesota, said, "no time for caution." Nor is it a time for pollsters, hucksters, campaign advisers who recommend that their candidates bob and weave rather than stand and fight. Had Kerry been the fighter he was when he testified before Fulbright as a young man, he would be president.
Yup, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. We crave leaders who will take positions because they are right and damn the consequences. If no one steps forward, it will be eight more years of class warfare, disruption of our educational system, tax breaks for the wealthy and crumbs for the rest of us. Recall. No time for caution. It is time to lead, to take chances - think of the commonwealth, not the next election.
Ed Garvey is a Madison lawyer, political activist and the editor of the fightingbob.com Web site. E-mail: comments@fightingbob.com
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