i know obama will disappoint me, i know that he is not progessive, i know that he will not be as friendly to queer folks, to the poor, to artists, and to the working classes as i would like , i know that he will not be as forward about peace as he should be, i understand that he will be unable to live up to the weight of history, and i am profoundly nervous about the messianic energy that envelopes him, i know that it means something that he is internationalist, that he is young, that he knows the digital divide, and that he causes discomfort and xenophobia among the far right wing, and that he might signal the death of the american theocracy that has strangled the enpire for the last decade.

and pete seeger singing the fourth verse of this land is my land, still sends shivers up and down my spine.