This message is for the Democrats amongst you.

Could somebody please enlighten me as to why all communications I've been getting from Democratic America is all a bunch of self-defeating bullshit? I have already voted for John Kerry, who while by no means a panacea to the world's problems, has proven himself to be an upstanding, reflective, and INTELLIGENT candidate that I would be proud to have in the White House directing my home country and representing it abroad. And I do not see how repeating over and over that Bush is going to win is really helping to rally the team here.

Sure, I understand that nobody wants to get their hopes up and in a way, if Kerry wins he has got a huge job to do and it will be tiresome to deal with all the problems the current administration has created and all of the ridicule that we, as Kerry supporters, will have to take from the Republican pundits will be nauseating, but please, we can deal with that once we get McW out.

Maybe it is the masses of people I see waiting in lines to send in their absentee ballots (a man who couldn't remember the last address he had in the US, who had been stationed in France during WWII and never left, a Study Abroad program leader with 50 students in tow) or perhaps it is the lefty media here or my eternal optimism, but I genuinely believe that Kerry can and will win this election. You can all mock me if I am proven wrong, but for all of our sakes, I hope I am right.

*the use of the words "all communications" above is hyperbole. One righteous young lady even went as far as to wager a bet on Senator Kerry to become President Kerry. Now that is what I call support.