Thank you DU and DUers: Some appropriate words from the past on this HISTORIC ELECTION EVE!

[tom_paine]

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

To all of the DUers who spent the day dragging our assess all over creation, knocking on doors and leaving door-knockers. To all of the DUers who spent the last months calling and calling and calling, canvassing, canvassing, canvassing. To all the DUers who talked to friends, family, co-workers, acquanitances and strangers, wrote letters to the editor, or did ANYTHING to advance the cause of Liberty these past eight years...the love and thanks of man and woman, and all the generations to follow us.

Today the battle is won...but the war goes on. We did not declare this cold civil war (Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh and the Bushies with them did), and we did not seek it, but now that it has been forced upon us, we must fight to WIN. Nothing less than American Liberty remains at stake.

So much yet to do. The work begins today. And WE CAN DO IT!

Let the following statement stand for all the things the Bushies had made vile that are now OURS again.

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:patriot: :party: :toast: :patriot: :party: :toast: :toast: :patriot:

[tom_paine]

1. Not letting this thread die..not on such a glorious day of LIBERTY!

[puebloknot]

2. Indeed! Let freedom ring!

And in whatever way we each pray, let us hold our new President in our thoughts every day, and help him to clear a path through the brush of fascism that has grown up across the landscape of this country which was entrusted to our forefathers, and has been gifted to us.

[tom_paine]

3. Not letting this thread die on such a glorious day of LIBERTY!!!

Wow. If We feel like this, what must it feel like to be Obama?

Like the Ghost of Abraham Lincoln just came and sat down beside him on one side and Martin Luther King, Jr on the other side and gave him a big old hug, eh?

:grouphug:

Feels purty good, I imagine.

[poppysgal]

4. and they are cheering

all over the world with us-and this morning the sun is shinning a little brighter.:loveya:

[Kip Humphrey]

5. WE ARE THE PEOPLE WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!

AND, we finally have a president who gets it!!! Let the tears flow, celebrate and cheer, take a coffee break, then get to work. There's a LOT to do!