Proposal to Replace The American Eagle

With a much more graceful and prolific bird.

One Voter's Moment of Pride

My first election was in 1964 when Lyndon B. Johnson was elected in a landslide. Since then I have voted in all but one of the presidential elections. While I am essentially liberal and a Democrat, I have occasionally voted Republican and once for a 3rd party candidate. There have been times when I left the polling booth with a sense of hope and other times when I felt I was voting for the lesser of two evils. There have even been a few times when I left feeling despair.
Today I voted for Barack Obama and admit that, for the first time, I feel deeply proud of my vote. Some of this is because my nation has grown up enough to have a choice to vote for someone other than a white European. Some of my feelings stem from the belief that he will win and set us, finally, on a course back towards an honest concern for the other fellow, no matter what his color, race or creed.
But most all I feel proud because of the hope that he will, as did my name sake, Teddy Roosevelt, honor his words and guide us in an attempt to stem the unrelenting greed and growth of the huge corporations that are strangling all that is decent and compassionate in our nation.
Yes we can!!!