As the pictures flashed in my mind of all of those I represented – tears started flowing freely. As I looked around the crowd, of all races and all ages – I saw that they,too, had tears. I knew that everyone around me fully understood the historical significance of this day, January 20, 2009. This was the day that this great nation showed to itself and to the world, that it was not the same nation that was founded in 1776 and built on the backs of free or indentured labor – and ruled through much divison - instead it was now a nation in which enough people said, we will vote for a person because of the content of his character and not the color of his skin. This was a nation poised and ready to improve the lives of all Americans and this was a nation which was ready to work with everyone to make a difference. This was a nation who believed in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. This was a stronger America. This was a nation that was now ready to work with those tough issues that cuases divisons.
The 2nd Chorus and 3rd Verse of “Lift Every Vice and Sing” was running through my mind. It goes as follows:
2nd Chorus
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past, 'til now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
3rd Verse
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might, Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
As I was leaving, the process was exceedingly slow because of the number of us. There was no pushing, shoving or angry tones – everyone was patient, making sure that no one tripped or stumbled. Everyone was looking out for each other. It was as if everyone knew that so much had been sacrificed to make this day possible so that all actions had to be honorable, otherwise, it would have been disrespectful of all of those who had gone before us.
As we were slowly exiting, someone started singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and all who knew it started singing it with much gusto and those that didn't know it, hummed along with the same spirit.
Yes, a great day and even though we are in tough economic times, with issues that still divide us – I left there knowing that we will overcome all of those things and that our nation will emerge even stronger and more positive in days and years ahead. How, do I know this – I know it because I will use my energy to work along with others to make the impossible, possible.
You know I am a real GOD fearing man and all but, I just am not down with the people who really didn't want to see Barack Win.
They all were not for him and hated on him.
I don't think band wagon voters are about change and then people want to go find anyone who is black to talk about how exited they are.
I was exited in April 2007 cause I know he was going to WIN because GOD showed me a sign.
People think they are really about change and they are not.
They still hate but, ok if you are really about change then roll up your sleaves and help Barack
cause Yes We Won but we won a very twisted world.
We still need to weed out those fake and hatred people.
I would had rather them vote for someone else then vote for a race they hate.
I love everyone but, lot's of people hate me because of my skin and for no other reason than that.
I hold my head High and ready to die for the truth, so tell it why don't you.
Just keep it real.
People look at me all different now like they are shocked.
I tell them be shocked at yourself and go to GOD for a pure heart he forgives, ya know?
GOD Bless You
Ali
WE DID IT! TOGETHER, WE ARE ONE! GREAT JOB. WE MUST KEEP MOVING FORWARD. WE MUST REBUILD THIS NATION AND THE ENTIRE WORLD. KEEP IN TOUCH--->
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I'm all for Barack, hands down. But can we blame Bush for our spending habits? We can, because he's the easiest. It is us not necessarily the President. I think we, the American people, overemphasize what we as a nation can do. Don't get me wrong, we can do a lot. And I give the President a lot of credit. Even if he does not do everything exactly how people think he should have thus creating a Democracy.
Will Barack go through the same thing, I bet there will be about a year when everythings is fine because it's a new thing. We have until February for him to be acting President. I think after the year, people may start questioning his decisions. I hope I'm wrong and he has a great Presidency. We can not assume everything will be okay when/if he's our next President. We got more involved to get this far, now we need to continue supporting him to make this country better.
how sensitive I would be to the latest email from the Barack campaign. Probably because I don't have a job anymore. The economy took my job.
'Take a day off to vote.'. Yeah, if you have a job that will allow that and doesn't need to make cutbacks. I hope you have a job that is supportive of you to take off. And you can not lie to your employer either. In these troubled economic times some white, some blue collared workers need to be careful, especially if they have loved ones to support. Would you take a sick or vacation day? I just hate seeing the unemployment rate keep going up and don't want anymore jobs lost.
Veterans to Rally at Fort Nonsense to Protest Frelinghuysen’s “Nonsense”
Parsippany, October 22—Veterans of the U.S. armed forces will be rallying at Fort Nonsense, in Morristown, New Jersey, on Saturday, October 25, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. to protest the voting record of Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (R, NJ-11) in the United States House of Representatives.
According to a recent scorecard issued by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Frelinghuysen scored only 10 out of a possible 15 points, whereas most of New Jersey’s Representatives scored 14 or 15. Frelinghuysen lost crucial points when he voted against healthcare funding and educational benefits for the veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
According to Ed McLaughlin, 59, a Vietnam Veteran from Butler, “Frelinghuysen slaps the troops on the back and says ‘I’m right behind you guys.’ Then he votes against us every chance he gets. The only time he votes for veterans is when it’s practically unanimous.” McLaughlin served with the First Marines from 1967 to 1969 and has a 100% service-connected disability.
McCain Camp, enough with the insipid, trite platitudes! If you insist on dragging the public discourse into the shallow mud puddle with cracker-barrel archetypes, at least be sure that your folksy invention is authentic.
I am sure you read that “Joe” isn’t a plumber (as if that should matter to the democratic process), nor is he even a Joe. Joe is a last-minute act of desperation. And, very analogous to McCain’s other act of desperation (Palin), it’s starting to backfire.
After mentioning the Joe’s name (or sobriquet) a gazillion times in the final debate, McCain expects the press to give him a pass when he finds an obscure individual to exploit, kind of like his running mate. Oh why is the big, bad meanie media always picking on poor innocent Johnny McCain?
It really is a shame that Joe isn’t a plumber, as he could have pumped the septic tank that is today's Grand Old Party!
Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 8pm Livingston Senior/Community Center 204 Hillside Avenue, Livingston
Rodney Frelinghuysen doesn't vote for Vets,
There is no reason Vets should vote for Rodney.
These 3 votes highlight Rodney Frelinghuysen's worst in NJ Vets voting record:
- May 5th, 2005: Rodney voted to cut Veterans healthcare & to cut VA claims processing.
- May 11th, 2006: Rodney voted to cut Military Widows and Orphans benefits
- May 15th, 2008: Rodney voted against the Webb & Hagel GI bill that was endorsed by the VFW & American Legion
1%, or 1 vote out of 100There have been 12 Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the entire election would have been different. More than half were decided by less than a 2% margin.
In 2004, 57,787 votes would have given us President Kerry.In 2000, 269 votes would have given us President GoreIn 1996, 575,515 votes would have given us President Dole.
From ABC News:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/09/squeakers.html
=========="Squeakers"Ned PotterABC NewsSeptember 29, 2008How close have Presidential elections been? Closer, perhaps, than we ever guessed. Mike Sheppard, a grad student in statistics at Michigan State, has done a mathematical exercise that shows it.He ran a computer program to answer this question: "What is the smallest number of total votes that need to be switched from one candidate to another, and from which states, to affect the outcome of the election?"The answer: in some years, very, very few. Take a look at his analysis HERE. It shows the powerful interaction between the popular vote and the electoral college.[...]==========
Full article here:http://blogs.abcnews.com/scienceandsociety/2008/09/squeakers.html
Detailed analysis here, including colored maps:https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html-Mike Sheppard
Friends,
Let me cut to the chase. The biggest robbery in the history of this country is taking place as you read this. Though no guns are being used, 300 million hostages are being taken. Make no mistake about it: After stealing a half trillion dollars to line the pockets of their war-profiteering backers for the past five years, after lining the pockets of their fellow oilmen to the tune of over a hundred billion dollars in just the last two years, Bush and his cronies -- who must soon vacate the White House -- are looting the U.S. Treasury of every dollar they can grab. They are swiping as much of the silverware as they can on their way out the door.
No matter what they say, no matter how many scare words they use, they are up to their old tricks of creating fear and confusion in order to make and keep themselves and the upper one percent filthy rich. Just read the first four paragraphs of the lead story in last Monday's New York Times and you can see what the real deal is:
"Even as policy makers worked on details of a $700 billion bailout of the financial industry, Wall Street began looking for ways to profit from it. "Financial firms were lobbying to have all manner of troubled investments covered, not just those related to mortgages. "At the same time, investment firms were jockeying to oversee all the assets that Treasury plans to take off the books of financial institutions, a role that could earn them hundreds of millions of dollars a year in fees. "Nobody wants to be left out of Treasury's proposal to buy up bad assets of financial institutions."
Unbelievable. Wall Street and its backers created this mess and now they are going to clean up like bandits. Even Rudy Giuliani is lobbying for his firm to be hired (and paid) to "consult" in the bailout.
The problem is, nobody truly knows what this "collapse" is all about. Even Treasury Secretary Paulson admitted he doesn't know the exact amount that is needed (he just picked the $700 billion number out of his head!). The head of the congressional budget office said he can't figure it out nor can he explain it to anyone.
And yet, they are screeching about how the end is near! Panic! Recession! The Great Depression! Y2K! Bird flu! Killer bees! We must pass the bailout bill today!! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Falling for whom? NOTHING in this "bailout" package will lower the price of the gas you have to put in your car to get to work. NOTHING in this bill will protect you from losing your home. NOTHING in this bill will give you health insurance.
Health insurance? Mike, why are you bringing this up? What's this got to do with the Wall Street collapse?
It has everything to do with it. This so-called "collapse" was triggered by the massive defaulting and foreclosures going on with people's home mortgages. Do you know why so many Americans are losing their homes? To hear the Republicans describe it, it's because too many working class idiots were given mortgages that they really couldn't afford. Here's the truth: The number one cause of people declaring bankruptcy is because ofmedical bills. Let me state this simply: If we had had universal health coverage, this mortgage "crisis" may never have happened.
This bailout's mission is to protect the obscene amount of wealth that has been accumulated in the last eight years. It's to protect the top shareholders who own and control corporate America. It's to make sure their yachts and mansions and "way of life" go uninterrupted while the rest of America suffers and struggles to pay the bills. Let the rich suffer for once. Let them pay for the bailout. We are spending 400 million dollars a day on the war in Iraq. Let them end the war immediately and save us all another half-trillion dollars!
I have to stop writing this and you have to stop reading it. They are staging a financial coup this morning in our country. They are hoping Congress will act fast before they stop to think, before we have a chance to stop them ourselves. So stop reading this and do something -- NOW! Here's what you can do immediately:
1. Call or e-mail Senator Obama. Tell him he does not need to be sitting there trying to help prop up Bush and Cheney and the mess they've made. Tell him we know he has the smarts to slow this thing down and figure out what's the best route to take. Tell him the rich have to pay for whatever help is offered. Use the leverage we have now to insist on a moratorium on home foreclosures, to insist on a move to universal health coverage, and tell him that we the people need to be in charge of the economic decisions that affect our lives, not the barons of Wall Street.
2. Take to the streets. Participate in one of the hundreds of quickly-called demonstrations that are taking place all over the country (especially those near Wall Street and DC).
3. Call your Representative in Congress and your Senators. (click here to find their phone numbers). Tell them what you told Senator Obama.
When you screw up in life, there is hell to pay. Each and every one of you reading this knows that basic lesson and has paid the consequences of your actions at some point. In this great democracy, we cannot let there be one set of rules for the vast majority of hard-working citizens, and another set of rules for the elite, who, when they screw up, are handed one more gift on a silver platter. No more! Not again!
Yours,Michael MooreMMFlint@aol.comMichaelMoore.com
P.S. Having read further the details of this bailout bill, you need to know you are being lied to. They talk about how they will prevent golden parachutes. It says NOTHING about what these executives and fat cats will make in SALARY. According to Rep. Brad Sherman of California, these top managers will continue to receive million-dollar-a-month paychecks under this new bill. There is no direct ownership given to the American people for the money being handed over. Foreign banks and investors will be allowed to receive billion-dollar handouts. A large chunk of this $700 billion is going to be given directly to Chinese and Middle Eastern banks. There is NO guarantee of ever seeing that money again.
P.P.S. From talking to people I know in DC, they say the reason so many Dems are behind this is because Wall Street this weekend put a gun to their heads and said either turn over the $700 billion or the first thing we'll start blowing up are the pension funds and 401(k)s of your middle class constituents. The Dems are scared they may make good on their threat. But this is not the time to back down or act like the typical Democrat we have witnessed for the last eight years. The Dems handed a stolen election over to Bush. The Dems gave Bush the votes he needed to invade a sovereign country. Once they took over Congress in 2007, they refused to pull the plug on the war. And now they have been cowered into being accomplices in the crime of the century. You have to call them now and say "NO!" If we let them do this, just imagine how hard it will be to get anything good done when President Obama is in the White House. THESE DEMOCRATS ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS THE BACKBONE WE GIVE THEM. CALL CONGRESS NOW.
Everytime I write a post it is critical of Hillary Clinton......so much so that it must seem that I harbor a long-standing dislike of her. But that's absolutely not true. In fact, I admired and supported her until early this year when I realized that we have something very special in Barack Obama.
Accordingly, roughly 9 months ago I became an ardent Barack supporter and, with all the others, patiently waited those long excrutiating months for Hillary to finally drop out, support him, and act like the avid Democrat of which she is so capable.
She promised to fully support him and do "everything in my power" to help Barack Obama get elected. She has certainly made a few excellent speeches. And her husband delivered a top-notch speech at the convention. But, as was pointed out in a Huffington Post article a few days ago, it seems clear that Bill Clinton still harbors a resentment for what happened during the primary. And where is Hillary?
I could write almost endlessly on how important it is for Barack Obama to win in November. Suffice it to say, almost unbelievably, it is even more important now than it was only a few short months ago. John McCain would be horrible not only for the country, but for the entire world. It can almost be said that an Obama victory is mandatory.
Everyone must join together and do what each can to get him elected. Maximum effort for 5 more weeks is necessary. Is Hillary really on board?
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