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I have actually enjoyed Shawn's description of that circus called the Democratic Convention this week. I think his columns summed up just how absurd these people really are and how out of touch with reality they have become. The shadow convention he speaks of was in actuality the real convention. That circus with the Kerry clown and others was the shadow convention. That was a show put on to entice the ignorant and uninformed among us. The activities taking place over at the "Take Back America" section was the real Democratic Party. These are the people who want to run our country. This is where Howard Dean, Jesse Jackson, and every other political misfit with an agenda stand out because these are the foot soldiers of the Democrat Party who are funded by the elitist left wingers who have gotten rich off our sweat all the while denouncing us. Kerry is nothing more than an effigy with moving lips who, if elected, will become just a conduit for all their ideas.

p>However, I don't think Kerry is going to make it. After viewing the events, it seems these people are on a track to disaster. They had their time in the spotlight and they have blown it. It boils down now to whether the ignorant and uninformed among us constitute a majority on election day. Chances are, they'll have something better to do on that day than voting. Let's hope so. br> -- Pete Chagnon /p> p> According to the San Diego Union Tribune , Dana Wilkie, quotes Emma Lazarus, when she refers to the poem "The New Colossus." For instance, she refers to the line, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free," at the same time she notes Jesse Jackson's statement that Jesus is a liberal. The poem refers to the elimination of all bigotry and the promise that all new citizens would be able to find safe harbor in the refuge of a new country. But the question we can ask ourselves now is, does this statement of Emma Lazarus hold up true today? br> -- Jeanne-Marie Morrissey br> Montpelier, Vermont /p>

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