tonight, i hear the sounds of fireworks and
the sounds of friends and patriots rejoicing.
tonight, these sounds do not ring hollow.

tonight, i encourage you all, whoever you are, however you voted, and whatever you may have heard and/or decided about our newly named president-elect…

please, let’s join together as americans, and walk forward in peace. this last 8 years has brought incredible division in this country, defining us as red states or blue, as real americans or anti-americans…

tonight, we are all americans.

let’s work for peace, to end war and in-fighting amongst ourselves. for equal rights for all americans to health care, to education, to love and marriage and family. let’s work to innovate, to end our dependence on oil and create new, cleaner technologies to provide for our children a future with a clean environment and a prosperous economy.

let’s send a message both to our next-door neighbors and to those we affect overseas via our foreign policy: we will fight no longer, but we will work together to make not just america, but this world a better place for all of us.

YES, WE CAN.

-h

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i encourage everyone who is capable of voting this year to check out barack obama… even if you think you know him, if only from the soundbites on television[which are often very misleading], please take one more good honest look at him. check out his website at barackobama.com and find out more about his campaign.

your vote is your vote – it shouldn’t have anything to do with hype from one side or the other – but please, take another look.

-stephen h