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"President Obama!" What an amazing day this is. Somewhere I picture John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, Martin Luther King, and another ground-breaking President from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, cheering because the ideals that they lived and died for have brought us to this incredible day.

"America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do."

This is just the start. It will take a lot of work and faith and dedication to heal this broken nation and make it a place we can all look up to again. It will take all of us together to unite our divided factions and make us whole.

Mr. Obama made it clear in his acceptance speech last night: It won't be easy, and we will not always like what we have to do. But one thing I feel certain of is that he will not lie to us as we have been lied to for the past eight years.

AM Syndicate: Hang Your Fears at the Door and Join Your Future from Liberation (2007)
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I want to make clear that the "enemy" I'm thinking of in the next song is not Senator McCain. I respect Mr. McCain and his struggle to run an ethical campaign in spite of the constituency of blood, greed, fear, and intolerance he inherited from Bush. No, the dead enemy here is negative politics--lies, mud-slinging, and appeals to the most ignorant levels of our society. But like Halloween vampires and zombies, these undead will be back. It's just nice to have beat them down for a while and shown them they don't scare us anymore.
Future of the Left: A Dead Enemy Always Smells Good from Curses (2007)
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I have to get more stuff by These United States, a band from Lexington, Kentucky, and Washington DC. I know they won't mind my using this song because they have a big ol' poster of Obama on their MySpace page. I really like their musical style, and I like the title of their other album, A Picture of the Three of Us at the Gates to the Garden of Eden, which is where I feel like I am right now.

This election was over when it became clear that the west coast would give Obama a clear margin of electoral votes.
These United States: West Won from Crimes (2008)
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