I think there is still a fair amount of disbelief on the Dem side. I personally am just wondering whats coming next. The "mandate" phrase is unnerving.
Anyway as to the last line of your post: "If I can sit in the world's most isolated city and feel angry, surely there is an American somewhere that is just ready to blow his lid...."
Ground Zero Suicide Driven by Election
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Sun Nov 7, 6:12 PM ET |
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NEW YORK - A 25-year-old man from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A shotgun was found nearby, but no suicide note was found, Coleman said.
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Veal's mother said her son was upset about the result of the presidential election and had driven to New York, Gus Danese, president of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association, told The New York Times in Sunday's editions.
Friends said Veal worked in a computer lab at the University of Georgia and was planning to marry.
"I'm absolutely sure it's a protest," Mary Anne Mauney, Veal's supervisor at the lab, told The Daily News. "I don't know what made him commit suicide, but where he did it was symbolic."
Police were investigating how Veal entered the former World Trade Center site, which is protected by high fences and owned by the Port Authority.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_us/ground_zero_suicide_6
I do hope this is not in horrible taste. Not my intention.
