Today is a great day!
Today John F. Kerry will be sworn in as our 44th president and the United States can finally pride itself on having the heart and character and courage to live up to the ideals that it we have sworn to uphold but so often fail to. We refused to believe the lies, scare tactics and propaganda of the Bush administration and instead elected a man who will try to right some of the many, many wrongs of the Bush administration.
Oh wait. That was just a dream I had. Never mind.
So today W. is inaugurated. I worked as hard as I could to prevent this, but here it is. Whatever. I firmly believer that this is the last stand of the hard right in this country. The chickens will come home and the roosting won't be fun.
Bush and his kind are a dying breed, despite the outcome of this election. The future has never really belonged to people like him. Not really. History has a way of rolling over people like Dick Cheney and his undisclosed locations. Their kind of politics have no heart, their strength has no power. And in the end, history will reduce these people to nothing. Greed has a hunger that eats it's own kind, and their arrogance has been their undoing. The clock is ticking for them.
I really believe that most people are good at heart. Yeah, we all get wrapped up in ourselves, and we can all be petty, but when people see something really wrong happening most of them will try to do something about it. And because people are sick of being scared and divided, and because people are sick of being held in contempt by their own government, with its lies and its obsessive secrecy, and because people are sick of gay people being demonized and marginalized, and people are sick of watching the rich get richer and the poor get fucked, and because people think that women deserve to be treated as full equals (and paid that way too), because 100,000 Iraqi citizens are dead from us "liberating" them, and because people think that there's something seriously wrong with our priorities and that an essential part of what it means to be American is slipping away from us-for all these reasons I say that things are gonna change.
I marched with a half million people through the streets of New York. I stood shoulder to shoulder 3 nights later as we lined 8th avenue with candles and people shouted us on from their windows and doorways. I knocked on a bunch of doors, made a ton of phone calls and I can tell you that there's something out there that I've never seen before. People are fed up. They want more. They are ready and willing to work to do anything they can do make things better. And that's not going away.
Bruce Springsteen said that what's at stake in this election is the idea that "liberty and justice for all" and "united we stand" are not just meaningless slogans. But these and all sorts of other ideals have been betrayed and people want to change that. And that idea is bigger than John Kerry or this election.
A change is gonna come.
Today John F. Kerry will be sworn in as our 44th president and the United States can finally pride itself on having the heart and character and courage to live up to the ideals that it we have sworn to uphold but so often fail to. We refused to believe the lies, scare tactics and propaganda of the Bush administration and instead elected a man who will try to right some of the many, many wrongs of the Bush administration.
Oh wait. That was just a dream I had. Never mind.
So today W. is inaugurated. I worked as hard as I could to prevent this, but here it is. Whatever. I firmly believer that this is the last stand of the hard right in this country. The chickens will come home and the roosting won't be fun.
Bush and his kind are a dying breed, despite the outcome of this election. The future has never really belonged to people like him. Not really. History has a way of rolling over people like Dick Cheney and his undisclosed locations. Their kind of politics have no heart, their strength has no power. And in the end, history will reduce these people to nothing. Greed has a hunger that eats it's own kind, and their arrogance has been their undoing. The clock is ticking for them.
I really believe that most people are good at heart. Yeah, we all get wrapped up in ourselves, and we can all be petty, but when people see something really wrong happening most of them will try to do something about it. And because people are sick of being scared and divided, and because people are sick of being held in contempt by their own government, with its lies and its obsessive secrecy, and because people are sick of gay people being demonized and marginalized, and people are sick of watching the rich get richer and the poor get fucked, and because people think that women deserve to be treated as full equals (and paid that way too), because 100,000 Iraqi citizens are dead from us "liberating" them, and because people think that there's something seriously wrong with our priorities and that an essential part of what it means to be American is slipping away from us-for all these reasons I say that things are gonna change.
I marched with a half million people through the streets of New York. I stood shoulder to shoulder 3 nights later as we lined 8th avenue with candles and people shouted us on from their windows and doorways. I knocked on a bunch of doors, made a ton of phone calls and I can tell you that there's something out there that I've never seen before. People are fed up. They want more. They are ready and willing to work to do anything they can do make things better. And that's not going away.
Bruce Springsteen said that what's at stake in this election is the idea that "liberty and justice for all" and "united we stand" are not just meaningless slogans. But these and all sorts of other ideals have been betrayed and people want to change that. And that idea is bigger than John Kerry or this election.
A change is gonna come.
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