What th' -- !?

Remember the story about Johnny Rotten asking a Sex Pistols audience, "Did you ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

When John Kerry conceded the election, there were still hundreds of thousands of votes to be counted. Why did he concede so soon? I feel betrayed. I don't know if the decision was his, or the party's, or his campaign manager's, or whomever. It was an insult to all of us who invested so much in this election; emotionally, financially, and otherwise. We deserved to know that our votes, at least the ones that were not stolen by the Diebold machines, would be counted. Anything less is a betrayal of one of our most precious rights. Quite disturbing, too, is the notion that soldiers' votes will never be counted. Shouldn't their votes have been considered important during wartime?

I've hear the reasons and conjecture, but I'll always wonder, with a sick feeling, why John Kerry conceded the election before the votes were counted.

(ps: even so, I still believe Kerry would be a better president than Bush or Cheney)