People talk about values. The values that have motivated me throughout my entire life as a liberal voter are grounded in the knowledge that I stand WITH, not over, the people who work and raise their kids and struggle to earn a paycheck and also, by the way, make this nation great.

Oh, sure: You can weigh the party platforms or ideologies of the day, building charts full of statistics, calling meetings, hiring experts, arguing different points of view, parsing position papers and, basically, doing all of the things that have gotten this country into the mess we are currently experiencing. That’s called the politics of the past – and THE PEOPLE are sick of it.

They are sick of the talk, sick of the infighting, sick of the backstabbing and politics of personal destruction. What the people are looking for is not the officially sanctioned “information” and “data” but the things that don’t lend themselves quite so readily to debate and statistical analysis: Things like honesty, and compassion, and clarity, and understanding.

And sometimes, the people know what is best.

The video I am about to show you was compiled as part of an upcoming study of the impact of the media on the 2008 election.

The people who commissioned the study seem to have thought they were uncovering some type of scandal but, quite the contrary, they have unwittingly unveiled the glorious reality of the sheer purity of heart that has changed our nation.

If you are anything like me, you will be moved by it … and I have to admit that after watching it three times through my heart still sings and my eyes well up each time as I watch and listen to these beautiful, forthright, focused people who I am so, so proud to stand with during this historic time.

These are my “great Americans,” who have done the impossible by overcoming the noise machine and delivering Barack Obama to the presidency. God bless them for their hearts filled with purity rather than malice. Now that they have been politically awakened, they control the future direction of our nation for generations to come, and America is well and truly fixed because of them. God bless the United States of America: now, finally, a government of the people!

Enjoy! (And have some tissues handy.)