I am writing this on the Memorial Day holiday, which is dedicated to honoring America's war dead.
I marked this occasion with an early morning walk around Valley Forge National Park, which lies a few short miles from my suburban Philadelphia home. The park marks the site where George Washington's troops spent a very harsh winter during the American Revolution.
As I stared at the log huts that once housed Washington's soldiers, I thought about how they so bravely stood up against the injustices of King George.
And I thought about how we today are living under the injustices of a George who would be king.
Now we need another American Revolution. This one needn't be fought with cannons and muskets. This one can be fought with our voices, our pens, and our keyboards, and will culminate at the ballot box (or voting machines) this November.
We must overthrow the Bush legacy, and that legacy includes John McCain.
We must put a Democrat in the White House, and we must increase the Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.
Then perhaps we can begin to reclaim the freedoms and ideals that have been lost in Bush's disastrous "war on terror".
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