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agate
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Today we in the United States saw the government change over in a momentous way. A couple of quotations from the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday was observed yesterday, might be in order here:
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A nation that continues year after year
to spend more money on military defense
than on programs of social uplift
is approaching spiritual death.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
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Matt
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Great quotes! A lot of people's hopes are being restored with this election. |
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agate
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If only Dubya hasn't gummed things up so badly that nothing can be done....
Thanks for stopping by! How has life been treating you? |
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ewizabeth
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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God bless President Obama! And God bless America!!!  
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agate
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| I've been doing {virtual) cartwheels and sending up cheers around here, and I'm probably not even disturbing the neighbors because many of them are doing cartwheels and sending up cheers too. |
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cricket52
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It is as if America has come of a long dark time.
While there are lean and difficult times ahead your new president has brought hope and openness.
If Canada gets rid of Harper maybe the same will happen here. 
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agate
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:33 am Post subject: |
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| cricket, is there a chance of that happening soon? |
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lady_express_44
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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I am not so nervous about Canada now that Obama is in, even with Harper in place.
Him and Bush together scared the HELL out of me.
Congrats to you American's. I was so proud that he won.
Cherie
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| The election and the inauguration celebration showed our better side--at long last. Maybe some day the world won't hate us. |
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