The Day That Changed America, One Way Or The Other
No words can express the emotion I will be feeling today. My plans changed when my grandpa died. Funny enough, I thought I would have been staying at the hotel where Tom Daschle and the South Dakota Dems will be having their "victory" celebration. I was going to try and break in. I may be off the blog for a few days while I am at the funeral.
I know the tears will come tonight. How can they not. March of 2003 I got involved in presidential politics by volunteering for the Dean campaign. Since then, I have busted my ass for the Democratic Party...a group I have disagreed with, but who I believe holds the best vision for this country. Tonight is the payoff. It might be tears of sadness, tears for those that will continue to suffer under Bush if he wins.....but I am feeling confident that it will be tears of happiness, tears to signify that hope is indeed on the way. No matter how you feel, vote today. I leave you with the words of the man that inspired me to action, the one that changed the face of the race, and made us all realize how important things are. His words still move me to tears, and provide the inspiration to keep fighting. These words are from his speech withdrawing from the Presidential race. Enjoy.
"Change is hard work. Change does not happen simply because you go to a rally and simply because you make phone calls -- and I know how hard everybody here has worked. But change is a process that you can never give up on because change is the state of America and change is the state of humankind.
So we will continue to fight. This is the end of phase one of this fight, but the fight will go on, and we will be together in that fight. We will continue to bring our message of hope and change to the American people.
We will speak out. We will fight on. We will continue to stand up against the dangerous foreign policy which weakens our security, and stand up against this president who weakens our civil rights.
We will continue to stand up against special interest that prevent change. And we will stand for America's working families for jobs and health care, investment in our children, the chance of all Americans to pursue their dreams.
We will continue to stand up against the divisive policies of the far right. We will no longer be divided by race. We will no longer be divided by gender. We will no longer be divided by sexual orientation. We will no longer be divided by religion. We will no longer be divided by income. And we will no longer be divided by George W. Bush in the White House.
And now that the campaign is stopped, I'm going to say something that all of you have heard me say before.
But I want you to think about it now because now is the most important time that you have heard it. And this is the real message of this campaign and you'll hear it in a different way because I am no longer a candidate.
The biggest lie that people like me tell people like you at election time is that, If you vote for me, I'll solve your problems. The truth is the power is in your hands, not mine.
Abraham Lincoln said that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this Earth. You have the power to take back the Democratic Party and make us stand up for what's right again.
Allow us to fulfill the dream of Harry Truman in 1948 that he laid out where we would no longer be the last industrial country on the face of the Earth without health insurance. Allow us to stand up again for the rights to organize for ordinary men and women. Allow us to stand again for the principles of equal rights under the law for every single American.
You have the power to take our country back so that the flag of the United States of America no longer is the exclusive property of John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell; that it belongs to all of us again.
And together we have the power to take back the White House in 2004 and that is exactly what we're going to do."
-Howard Dean
Let's do it together, let's take our country back. Vote today. Vote Democrat. Vote for Hope. God Bless us and keep all of us
I know the tears will come tonight. How can they not. March of 2003 I got involved in presidential politics by volunteering for the Dean campaign. Since then, I have busted my ass for the Democratic Party...a group I have disagreed with, but who I believe holds the best vision for this country. Tonight is the payoff. It might be tears of sadness, tears for those that will continue to suffer under Bush if he wins.....but I am feeling confident that it will be tears of happiness, tears to signify that hope is indeed on the way. No matter how you feel, vote today. I leave you with the words of the man that inspired me to action, the one that changed the face of the race, and made us all realize how important things are. His words still move me to tears, and provide the inspiration to keep fighting. These words are from his speech withdrawing from the Presidential race. Enjoy.
"Change is hard work. Change does not happen simply because you go to a rally and simply because you make phone calls -- and I know how hard everybody here has worked. But change is a process that you can never give up on because change is the state of America and change is the state of humankind.
So we will continue to fight. This is the end of phase one of this fight, but the fight will go on, and we will be together in that fight. We will continue to bring our message of hope and change to the American people.
We will speak out. We will fight on. We will continue to stand up against the dangerous foreign policy which weakens our security, and stand up against this president who weakens our civil rights.
We will continue to stand up against special interest that prevent change. And we will stand for America's working families for jobs and health care, investment in our children, the chance of all Americans to pursue their dreams.
We will continue to stand up against the divisive policies of the far right. We will no longer be divided by race. We will no longer be divided by gender. We will no longer be divided by sexual orientation. We will no longer be divided by religion. We will no longer be divided by income. And we will no longer be divided by George W. Bush in the White House.
And now that the campaign is stopped, I'm going to say something that all of you have heard me say before.
But I want you to think about it now because now is the most important time that you have heard it. And this is the real message of this campaign and you'll hear it in a different way because I am no longer a candidate.
The biggest lie that people like me tell people like you at election time is that, If you vote for me, I'll solve your problems. The truth is the power is in your hands, not mine.
Abraham Lincoln said that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this Earth. You have the power to take back the Democratic Party and make us stand up for what's right again.
Allow us to fulfill the dream of Harry Truman in 1948 that he laid out where we would no longer be the last industrial country on the face of the Earth without health insurance. Allow us to stand up again for the rights to organize for ordinary men and women. Allow us to stand again for the principles of equal rights under the law for every single American.
You have the power to take our country back so that the flag of the United States of America no longer is the exclusive property of John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell; that it belongs to all of us again.
And together we have the power to take back the White House in 2004 and that is exactly what we're going to do."
-Howard Dean
Let's do it together, let's take our country back. Vote today. Vote Democrat. Vote for Hope. God Bless us and keep all of us
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