It has been a very very long six years, and I am ecstatic that this regime of destruction is over. The Bush administration and their regressives in congress have torn apart our country and the world. We, as the strong progressive grassroots of the Democratic Party, have seen what horrors an unchecked regressive government can do. There are more outrages than I can possibly list but perhaps:

Iraq, Katrina, lack of leadership on global warming, loss of international respect, secret warrantless illegal wiretapping, voter purging, screwing the middle class in favor of large corporations, illegal internment of “enemy combatants”, attempting to restrict the rights of Americans who happen to be gay, packing our courts, ignoring the problems of hunger and healthcare, implementing the gag rule for grants to fight AIDs, selling off our national parks, and attempting to pull quick political students like the flag burning amendment while people die because we are fighting a useless war in Iraq.

So I say to you all, look what has happened. We have a lot of work to do to reclaim our country. But one thing is for sure: we know what can happen if we don’t fight tooth and nail like every member of the DU has done for the past 6 years. Thanks to the worst administration in history we have come together as a progressive community and formed a strong grass roots base lead by people like TIA and Skinner. So to everyone here, thank you for what you do. It means the world to me and it means a lot to the world.