Yes We Can (words and music by Peter Armetta) is at http://www.archive.org/details/YesWeCan_111
I guess you can't know how numb you've been until you begin to wake up. Hearing a Presidential candidate unequivocally state an obvious fact, that a government serving the interests of the wealthy and the powerful at the cost of untold pain to ordinary people all over the world is not worthy of us and the country we all love, has made a tremendous difference to me. Senator Obama is right; hope is an American tradition. In the last analysis, it is we ordinary people who make the difference, either by our benumbed and hopeless silence or by beginning to take responsibility for shaping our own destiny. Ordinary Americans of all races and traditions have done it before us, and we can do it, too.
The song at the link above was written the day after Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for President. I hope it will speak to you. Please forward it to anyone you feel may respond to Obama's message: that real change is possible and the time for it is NOW!
But the best advocate is the man himself. Here is a link to a collection of his speeches that really gives a sense of what he's about and what he's asking of us (especially "On Taking Back Government" and "A More Perfect Union"):
http://cid-989b4bad74a5dfb1.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Essential%20Obama%20AudioI hope this finds you well and successfully engaged in exactly your own way in making the world what Senator Obama's candidacy reminds us it can be.
Peter Armetta
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