I’ve waited 8 long years for this moment in history. Congratulations to President-elect Obama and to everyone who worked hard to make that happen. Bart, I sincerely believe that you and your site have made a positive difference over the past 8 years. My red state flip pledge donation to you will be one check that I am more enthusiastic about writing than any that I have in a long time.
To everyone that reads this blog, it’s easy to breathe a sigh of relief and say it’s over, our team won! But the truth is that our work has just begun. A lot of us have worked very hard to get here and a rest is well-deserved. But there is one real danger now: Complacency.
Even as I write this there are 4 hotly contested Senate seats that are still undecided, one of which I feel is extemely important, the Franken-Coleman contest in Minnesota. It is important that is decided fairly, with every vote counted. We have not won enough yet. Republicans are like cockroaches. We can set off the bomb, kill the big one and most others, but the next day there are always a few left. If we don’t finish the job and mop up the stragglers, they will breed again.
There is a lot that needs to be done to fix the mess that this country is in, and we as citizens cannot just sit back and expect our new leaders to do everything without our help or our input. Now that we got our team in there and that there are people in office that may actually listen to us, we must continue to make our voices heard. We must continue to be active in politics, let our representatives know what issues are important to us, and not be afraid to speak up if we disagree with anything. We can never sit back and let what happened in the past 8 years happen again. If we do, we may not get another chance for change like the one we have now.