We're in the very last stretch of a marathon. The finish line is just there, in front of us - we're almost there.
Today, Tonia is making phone calls in my office in Bellevue asking people to vote. Today, Nick is calling donors asking them to help with another contribution - and many of you are. Steve is out going door-to-door getting out the vote. I called one of my donors earlier (between meet-and-greets and canvassing of my own) and the housesitter told me she was in Ohio; I left a message wishing her all my best getting out the vote there.
All over this country, we are working to change it. And I believe we are going to succeed.
I grew up, as many of you know, in a military family. In my family - as in most military families - there is a deep loyalty to the United States: the well-being of our country comes concretely before our families and very lives.
It is appropriate that when our country of, by, and for the people authorizes the use of deadly force, it is only to those whose loyalty to our country comes before any other loyalties they have.
Except that, as you know, that's not now the case. Now we have people using deadly force in our names whose loyalty is instead to corporations, most notoriously Blackwater.
