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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:19 PM
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We are indeed on the cusp of regaining our beloved America, aren't we?
She's been lost so long, we may not recognize her when we see her again, at long last.

But we'll be gentle with her; we'll lovingly bathe and feed her and dress her, and coax her back to what she once was. And even if "what she once was" ever existed only in the yearning of our minds, we may make that yearning a reality yet.

Better days are coming, my friends. They are.

Redstone

(Posted on the recommendation of my friend, to whom I e-mailed this last night.)
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JeffR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:22 PM
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1. Well said.
:toast:

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busybl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:23 PM
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2. we can stop pretending to be Canadians
when we travel!
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az chela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:24 PM
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3. Love this post ,recommend it to everyone
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:26 PM
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4. Beautiful, Redstone.
Goddamn, I wish I could fucking write motherfucking shit like that.


Did you see some Redstone in the preceding line?

Beautiful.

Tom
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:40 PM
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9. Ten-four, Tom.
Redstone
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:33 PM
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5. Beautifully said, Redstone. In watching this old video
of Joan Baez singing "we shall overcome" @ Woodstock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q

I realize just how long we have waited to come to this point where we see this admin gone.

I'm feeling it too!

It will be wonderful working toward restoring our country!!
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rubberducky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:34 PM
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6. It`s going to take a lot of work, Redstone.
May god help us. We`re going to have to hold hands and learn how to TRUST each other. Not just DU,but all of US. We need to come together with respect for ALL of our brothers and sisters. Because when all is said and done, we are ALL just people.
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rosesaylavee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:35 PM
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7. Losing Her makes Her all the more precious on Her return.
It's been a long hard fight - and not all of us made it to the end. I know that I will never forget this and will never again assume that 'our leaders' know the best thing to do while I go about my 'life'.

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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:35 PM
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8. Can't wait
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:42 PM
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10. Excellent post - I can't wait to get the country that I love back once again.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 08:53 PM
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11. We've all fought, in our own ways, and some of us have bled, so we could see America finally
grow up and be what we've always wanted it to be, and hoped that it could be.

Men walked - WALKED - from Maine to Georgia to preserve the Union. Women struggled and fought, just to be able to VOTE. Black folks suffered abuses unimaginable to those of us who are not black, just to be able to live the same kind of life that white folks always could.

Just to be American.

Millions upon millions of immigrants came here and wore themselves out, working, working, and then working some more.

Just to be American. Or so their kids could be.

Redstone
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 09:15 PM
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12. It's so exciting to be on the brink of getting THAT America back again.
Si Se Puede!!
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 09:16 PM
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13. Oh, Jesus, that's beautiful ...
And who can doubt that the Lady will yet again rise to her rightful place, when she has Knights like yourself to fight her cause?


Absolutely beautiful.
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 09:38 PM
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14. Now if we can just repeal Nafta.
All in good time I guess.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:00 PM
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15. Just to be sure, please make a donation tonight.
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GeorgeGist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-02-08 10:55 PM
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16. Not at all ...
America is on the cusp of 're-inventing' social democracy; where all of society owns the government, and the economy.

PS. It's called 'socialism' in polite societies.
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