"How screwed up our system is" 101: Finally just watched "Recount".

[NRaleighLiberal]

Yes, I was (and still am) over the moon about Obama's victory and Dubya's departure. It is a new year with new hopes and dreams.

But...

but...

the schisms, the hypocrisy, the power mongers, those with nothing but power by any means - that led to the horror of the 2000 election (and the 2004 election of course, though of a different flavor) are still there. And they likely always will be.

Watching this movie made me sick. It is a great movie, an important movie, and took me back to the sleepless election night and the agonizing march to the criminal placement of Bush by the Supreme Court.

We can never forget....we can never stop fighting the good fight.

And we can always be proud that we are Democrats. We aren't perfect - we are diverse. But for the most part, we are empathetic, we know fairness, and we know what is right.

[JDPriestly]

1. Thanks. I'm not ready to watch that yet. Too heart-wrenching.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Okay, time for a photograph of an honest voting machine with an honest voter...

Heeere sheeeee .... is:

[4 t 4]

3. I've seen it 3 times and one of the most

disheartening things was the way The United States Supreme Court behaved, just disgraceful and just think they're the absolute and final word. I think so many of them are way, way to old. We hardly have a fucking chance. I loved it though.

[Captain Hilts]

4. I think it's a CRIME that states determine who gets to vote in a FEDERAL election..i.e. ex felons.nt

[elocs]

5. I first voted in a machine like that back in the day probably 30 years after that picture. n/t

[Captain Hilts]

7. Me too in the early 80s. nt

[JDPriestly]

8. I love the photo. I read almost all of her books when I was young.

I don't think they are in print any more. I don't even think they are available used.

[Captain Hilts]

12. They are all in print. Still. Hell, I see them in Barnes and Nobel.

Buy them for someone you love!

They're most commonly found as "The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt" but I've got This I remember and This is My Story used.

[JDPriestly]

13. Actually, I remember reading more than are available. Some

of them may have been collections of speeches. I was young and did not pay that much attention to the difference between a speech and something written as a book.

[JDPriestly]

9. I have to add that Eleanor Roosevelt grew up at a time when

women did not have the right to vote. Voting must have represented liberation for her.

[Captain Hilts]

11. I don't think she lived to see women permitted to serve on juries in New York State. nt

[pnorman]

6. My DVD is still "in the mail".

By now, thanks to this DU community, I'm pretty well up to speed on most of that disgrace to the Nation. But I don't regard that as a "spoiler", and am looking forward to viewing it.

pnorman

[eridani]

10. The same shit happened this time

We were able to overcome it, but we should still not tolerate it.