As we are now entrenched in the caucuses and primaries of the 2008 election campaign, there is much talk of change that will be brought about by the Democratic nominee for President. Whomever that is, I think everyone agrees this person and their running mate will be an enormous improvement over the current occupants of Pennsylvania Avenue. The past eight years of criminality, genocide, and corruption will be the current administration’s legacy regardless of their actions this final year.
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While Clinton, Obama, or Edwards will bring a decided improvement to Washington, they are hardly the first Americans to fight for a better America. To bring about the kind of changes that this Country is so desperately in need of though, they will have to take on unprecedented, powerful, entrenched interests in our Nation’s Capital including the military industrial complex, oil and energy industry, health insurance industry, and pharmaceutical industry who yield great power over our current democracy.
In the midst of the exuberance, I think that all of America would do well to remember other Americans who took on powerful entrenched interests on our behalf so that history may not repeat itself.....again! While we support our Candidates and their promise of change, we must always remember the grave risk that their respective opposition candidacy, election, and future policy entail. They are, after all, opposing $Billion Dollar industries who stand to lose much at the hands of a future Democratic Administration.
While I am not a profit of doom, I do remember Abraham, Martin, John, and Bobby among other great but lessor known Americans who fought for equality, justice, freedom, and peace. Let us pray to God, the Universe, or anyone you choose for our Candidates and their safety and demand that their protection be of paramount concern now and in the future. If history teaches us nothing else, we must remember that even our most revered leaders are mortal. In their honor and in honor of great Americans past...
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Abraham, Martin, and John
Sung by: Dion
Words and Music by Richard Holler
Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
You know I just looked around and he's gone
Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone
(brief instrumental interlude-organ)
Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone
Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, it's gonna be one day
Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham, Martin, and John