It's time to rally around presumptive nominee John F. Kerry.

This is it, folks. Kerry is the presumptive nominee. Edwards is expected to drop out at a North Carolina press conference at 4pm. Bush called Kerry last night to congratulate him. Please visit www.johnkerry.com and volunteer, donate money, do whatever you can to help defeat George W. Bush in November. Democrats must unify to defeat George Bush AND Ralph Nader. And don't buy that "Ralph Nader is a good guy gone bad" nonsense. Ralph Nader is a bad guy who did a few useful things in his life. Nader, also, must be defeated. In battleground states like Florida and Ohio, Nader must be defeated swiftly and decisively. Perhaps he doesn't get on the ballot. That would be nice. George Bush has given us record budget and trade deficits. He has spearheaded tax break after tax break for the wealthiest among us, and no benefit has "trickled down" to the middle class and working class. Health care is still a shambles for everyone except the HMOs themselves, which made record profits last year. Prescription drug prices are still sky-high, and this administration has done everything in its power to ensure that pharma companies do not have to succumb to any sort of price controls, as they must in other industrialized nations. George Bush has joined a radical right-wing cultural war that truly threatens to take away rights guaranteed in our Constitution. This administration is up in arms about Janet Jackson's anatomy, but couldn't care less about real problems that regular people face. Most importantly, George Bush and his neoconservative handlers sold us a war based on absolute falsehoods. How can Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Frum and Feith now tell us that the CIA OVERSOLD the threat that Iraq and its non-existent WMDs posed, when in February 2003 they were telling us that the CIA was UNDERESTIMATING that very same threat. This crowd is a bunch of liars that want the United States to impose democracy in other countries by force, rather than persuasion. Well, Iraqi democracy still hasn't come, and it is threatened by Sunni al Qaeda provocations against the Iraqi Shi'a majority. Neoconservatives, who see the Israeli far-right Likud party as their model, will not rest until the entire world is subjected to the sort of indiscriminate suicide bombings that Israel now suffers, and they expect to gain power and influence in this country as far-right Leninists. To coin a phrase - make no mistake. The neoconservative far-right Leninists want this country to be gripped by a constant fear of imminent terrorism. Just like Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Castro learned that the best way to consolidate their hold on power was to perpetuate the revolutions that brought them to power, the neoconservatives hope to consolidate their power by perpetuating the feelings and opinions that Americans held on September 12, 2001. Never before has the choice been easier. Never before has the race been so important. Never before has our very way of life been so threatened. JOIN JOHN KERRY'S CAMPAIGN RIGHT NOW.