We are down in the polls and thrown off our game a bit. This much is true. The pundits are counting us out. The hand wringing has become. Sound familiar: "We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. That will only grow louder in the weeks and months to come."
The McCain campaign is hitting us and hitting us hard, unfairly, with ugly and cynical attacks. They are trying to silence us, to marginalize us, to divide us and make us give up. What, you didn't think this was coming: "For when we have faced impossible odds, we've been told that we were not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed 'Yes we can.'" Remeber that? Remember the simple creed: "Yes we can"?
Remember hope guys? Remember: "In the unlikely story that is America there has been nothing false about hope."
We've been here before. Many of us remember 2000 and 2004. For some of us it goes all the way back to 1988. But remember that "This time is different." Remember that? Remember New Hampshire?
Maybe it is time to have another viewing of this:
We have a choice to make. We can join the chorus of cynics who say that it can't be done. We can give up, look back at what might have been, use 20/20 hindsight to say this should have happened or if only we had done that. Or we can say once again, "Yes We Can!"
For me the choice is clear. This weekend I am going to knock on 300 doors here in New Mexico. Maybe for you it will be making phone calls, or registering voters. Who is with me? I still believe that "Yes We Can."