From Wendy Davis' Concession Speech- A Quote from Poet Jacob Riis

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[font size=3]Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock,
perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two,
and I know it was not the last blow that did it,
but all that had gone before.[/font]

[cilla4progress]

1. Beautiful

[BP2]

2. I'm glad she was so gracious. Debbie Schultz should be so classy ... when she's FIRED!

[shenmue]

3. I want to hug her

but I'm scared to go on planes, so I can't go to Texas.

[Texasblue14]

4. Texas is red

As in redneck. It's not blue or purple it's RED orangutan butt red. God help us. The dem leadership blew it in Texas and nationally. Time for a shakeup Deb starting with you.

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5. First off,

Disparaging Orangutans is unwise: "Ook"

Second: Texas will go blue but it will take time and effort.

Third: Giving up is the sucker's way.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. Unfortunately, this is also a metaphor

for US "democracy." Since 1980 especially, too much has gone before

Have to confess that I didn't read the whole speech where the context was likely clearer.

I heart Wendy Davis, but I truly fear for my country.

[JDPriestly]

7. K&R for the honesty and courage of Wendy Davis.

May she prosper.

[Wabbajack_]

8. I just heard a teabagger won her Senate seat

Seriously?

[LostOne4Ever]

9. Sadly it looks like it.

[font color=teal size=3 face=papyrus]Here are the results for that district. [/font]
[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #999999;"]Senate District 10
Precincts reporting – 100%
Decided
Party Candidate Votes %

[div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]Rep   K. Burton       95,484   52.8%
Dem  L. Willis          80,806   44.7%
Lib     G. Lord           3,337      1.8%
Gre    J. Tunmire      1,094      0.6%