(A wonderful message from someone who's there giving his all!)
Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 05:08:43 AM PST
The eyes of the world are upon us. Here in Iowa, the thaw has begun. After long, dark days harsh cold, it's supposed to warm up for the caucuses today. The ice is receding. The new winds are taking hold in preparation for the magic of a January night under the stars. Our party is united for change, for hope, to fight, to lead on (or before) day one. We're united for peace through strength, for an America that rises like a sun as the snow melts. We're fired up and ready for Bush to go. We have plans - for Iraq, for Pakistan, for restoring our Constitution. The Fire Fighters are for us, as are the service workers, the middle class, the single parents, the teachers, the farmers. The archetypal Americans are for us because we are for them. The children from the Norman Rockwell paintings are weathered and as old as 2007, but they will be standing for Biden and Dodd and Edwards and Obama.
Today we're more than ourselves - we're teams, we're beliefs, we're opinions, we're percentages of state delegates but we're united. Interconnected. By November the ice will have given way to the grass and its roots and the luminous splendor that grows forth from it. We are already a part of the campaigns that we have been waiting for - the change we have been working for - the judgment and experience that anticipates the action to bring our country back on its feet, proving that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Our spite will succumb to the stupor we will feel when the blessings of America are returned to us. God Bless America. Let's celebrate our democracy. Happy Caucus Day everybody.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/3/8339/12821/573/429636