This wasn't just about change - this was about survival!

[Major Hogwash]

We simply could not afford 4 more years of Bush's ill-designed policies.
Not his ridiculous foreign policies nor his stupendously stupid economic policies.
There was no way that John McCain would have done anything different in the next 4 years that Bush hasn't already done in the last 8 years.

This election wasn't just about change, it was about preserving the United States as a united country.
United is the key word in that sentence.

On the brink of financial disaster, our country is in worse shape than it has been for almost 78 years.
The fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan has taken a huge toll on our country, not only in financial terms, but also in terms of the number of lives that have been cut short, bodies maimed, or lives completely and forever ruined.
Men and women who have suffered damage untold in body, soul, and mind.

The struggle is not over.
The fight goes on.
Some in this country will not be willing to accept the will of the majority of the American people.
They will reject the results of last night's elections, and they will continue to stonewall and try to block any progress proposed by the Democrats who will serve in the next Congress.

Yet now, we have a new agenda in this country.
We have an agenda of change that is fueled by hope, and not fear.
Our agenda must prevail or this country will cease to be the country of the land of the free, home of the brave.

We need to end the illegal war in Iraq.
We need to bring our soldiers home.
We need to prosecute those people who lied to the American people and led our people astray to start that terrible and illegal war.

There is still much work to be done.
We need to return to a nation governed by a system of laws, not by the personalities of evil men.
We need to restore a sense of justice to the people, not a system of warping the laws to fit a political ideology.

Next week is Veteran's Day, please don't forget us.
I will, once again, but for the last time, recoil in horror and disgust as President Bush lays a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier and pretends he is one of us.
He isn't.
He doesn't know shit about sacrifice.
Over 4185 men and women have been killed in the Iraq War, and he started that war, yet he never fought in one.

We will end that war.
There will be those who will argue that we should not end that war.
They will say that we are "cutting and running" from that war.
However, let me remind everyone in this country, that without bringing an end to the Vietnam War in 1973, John McCain would never have come home.

Although I am not a Vietnam veteran, as Vietnam veterans are so fond of saying to other Vietnam veterans, I say, "Welcome home, John."
But, you must accept the fact that the Iraq war is over.
We must start drawing down the troop strength in that country and prepare for a withdrawal.
Help Obama end the war that Bush started, John.
Heed the will of the majority of the American people and end that illegal war.
Join us and help us end that terrible war.
Reject the Bush foreign policy of invasion in Iraq.

There will be some who will say that we should stay in Iraq for many more years to come.
Many of them will be elected officials.
May God have mercy on their souls, for I will not.

I will fight for peace in this world until the day I die.
I am a Democrat.

[Two Americas]

1. a massive rejection of the extreme right wing

What we do with that remains to be seen.