It is hard to stay positive lately.
All this talk of voter suppression, stolen votes, missing votes, votes the GOP wants removed because they are likely not for them.
Then you have the constant stream of Palinite racist BS, with death threats and neo-Nazi scumbags wanting to decapitate black kids. All across America we see the ugliness that is the Republican Party, and McCain won't calm it down and Palin just encourages it.
That said, read this. It is Obama's "closing argument" and probably a harbinger of what we'll see tomorrow night on TV as well as for the next week.
"In one week, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election; that tries to pit region against region, city against town, Republican against Democrat; that asks us to fear at a time when we need hope."
That's what we need to hear.
When rain came to Pennsylvania today, McCain stayed inside and cancelled a speech. Obama went outside and spoke to 9,000 people. It isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but it counts. It matters that a little rain won't stop Obama, but will halt the McCain campaign in a battleground state. When McCain has nothing left to lose, he still gives up.
Instead, from Obama: "Whether it's rain or sleet or snow, we are going to go out and we're going to vote, because there's too much at stake ... We're going to keep on going until we finish the job."
That is, unless you're from Texas. Seriously, this asshat accuses Obama of having no sense to get out of the rain. Hell, if nine thousand people stuck around to listen to me, I'd venture into a hail storm until I got knocked down. That said, read the comments on that article. Priceless.
I know these are difficult times for America. But I also know that we have faced difficult times before. The American story has never been about things coming easy - it's been about rising to the moment when the moment was hard. It's about seeing the highest mountaintop from the deepest of valleys. It's about rejecting fear and division for unity of purpose. That's how we've overcome war and depression. That's how we've won great struggles for civil rights and women's rights and worker's rights. And that's how we'll emerge from this crisis stronger and more prosperous than we were before - as one nation; as one people.
Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos on what we should demand from a new Democratic era.
Black mothers discuss their hopes and fears concerning Obama.
And while I may be very down on organized religion, this article discusses Obama's inroads with people of faith. Yes, this excludes the Talibangelical Psuedo-Christians.
Chicago is preparing for a crowd of one million in Grant Park on Election Night. I sure wish I could be there.
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