Area Code 802

The night Barack Obama was elected president the city of New York danced in the streets. We sang PEACE TRAIN in bars. I hugged men my age with tears in my eyes. Their eyes were wet too. It seemed like 40 years of government by assassination, corruption, and deceit were coming to an end, then our Black Hope nominated Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, loaded his cabinet with Clinton bankers, and left Bush's Defense Secretary. We still prayed for the best, but 'our' president pardoned the banks by following the center line of capitalism. More troops poured into Afghanistan and health reform was watered down more than the beer at Yankee Stadium.

We lost faith.

A GOP upstart filled Ted 'When I got to the car Mary Jo wasn't there' Kennedy's vacant senate seat.

Marijuana remained illegal and no one was prosecuting Dick Cheney for torture.

The Who are the Superbowl showpiece band and they won't be playing WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN.

Only one person can save the Democratic Party from complete disaster and the Clintons will never give their approval to phone this saviour. The question is whether Obama has the balls to make the call. His wife Michelle knows the number and the area code is not for Chicago, New York, or LA.

It's 802.

"Could I please speak to Howard Dean."

The ex-governor of Vermont sculpted the 50-state strategy for the 2008 campaign which won the Democrats the Senate, the House, and the Presidency. The leadership ignored Dean for any post in the present administration and he currently holds no elected office or official position in the Democratic party.

"I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years."

Those words and the scream explain it all.