I was playing trivia at Molly Malone's Irish Pub in Louisville on election night 2000. I vividly remember when Florida was mistakenly put in Gore's win column and it was assumed that he would be our next president. A month later in a hotel room in Chicago I watched a resigned and fatalistic Al Gore concede to he who shall never be named again. Eight years later after thousands of our soldiers have needlessly died, after our constitution has been mangled, after the reputation and mystique of this country has been degraded to perhaps its lowest ebb in many generations, we have come out of this fugue state of hatred, denial, and division. The sun has shone on this nation once again.
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