Edited on Sun Feb-03-08 12:40 AM by Big Blue Marble
To quote Dylan: 'don't stand in the doorway; don't block up the hall.' Those were words that inspired me then. They gave me hope a long time ago that we thought we could change a world mired in war and poverty and injustice.
My generation was wrong. There were those that blocked that door. They locked and chained that door for forty years. They were afraid of change; afraid of hope. Afraid of bravely going into an unchartered future so full of possibilities for all. So we went backward for those forty years. And now we are standing frightened and alone in the dark. Our democracy is broken. Our country is shamed before the world.
Once again we have come full circle back to the hope that we expressed in the sixties when we though we were the generation that would change everything. We again stand on that precipice. We can move into the future with hope restored or we can cling fearfully to the past as many here are encouraging us to do.
They tell us over and again that change is risky and hope is dangerous. These voices are so familiar. They have the taint of the musty past. The ones I heard so long ago. The ones that shut this country down. The ones that left our people impotent.
The new generation is knocking. It is their world and it is time to give it to them. The world is changing fast. The Clintons are the past. They do not understand that they are the past, but they are.
Obama is the future. His solutions are the future solutions. He is prepared to take us into the future. It is a future that I choose to share. I share the courage it takes to give up what was and to become what is possible. Will you come with us?
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