At Thanksgiving, as the post-election decompression finally leveled off, I started writing thank-you notes to total strangers. Why? Because this year, I wanted to make sure that I thanked the people who helped get me through the last few years—especially this past one. So I’ve written to a few bloggers, a few radio hosts and even two television anchors, but I’ve saved the best for last, or the last for the most, because this one is to the whole Daily Kos community and to Kos for creating it.
Like many a Democrat, I was pretty despondent after the 2004 election, feeling like a stranger in my own land. Stunned by the election results and Bush’s foolish claim of a ‘mandate’, I was also disbelieving at the apparent acceptance of the war, and of the outrageous actions of the Bush administration, which sadly generated little outrage at all.
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