Yes. We did.
For so many of us, these last 8 years have been a slow, painful near-death experience of something we had held so dear for so long - Faith and Hope. No matter how hard things had been in the past, Americans always held on to their Faith in our country and Hope that better days lay ahead . But 8 years ago we lost Hope and we lost Faith. Elections could be stolen. Personal rights could be taken away. The price of a barrel of oil was worth more than the very lives of our children. Our vote no longer counted and our voices no longer heard. Our leaders - in whom we had given our trust - had failed us.
But with Barack Obama we decided we would not go quietly. We took hold of the last bit of Faith and Hope left in us and we gathered our strength for one last fight. No. We would not go quietly. We would not go quietly at all. We would march and we would call and we would write and we would give and we would listen and we would respond and we would vote. We would rise up and take our country back and we would do it for our children and our grandchildren and for our soldiers and for the world and yes even for ourselves. No. We would not go quietly.