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Charles H. P. Smith For President

By The Daily Dish
Jan 16 2008, 8:49 AM ET

Who can resist with speeches like this one:

Are we not equal in the sight of God?

If so, let petty differences disappear, in full-hearted endorsement of whatever programs I have been graced to envision. For "one hand full, with quietness," is, as we read in The Bible, better not only than "two hands full with strife," but than the benefits of so-called "free and fair elections."

A little child in Oregon said to me: "Mister President, be good to us…be kind," and pressed into my hand a crayon drawing of an ostrich. That drawing, today, rests in a place of honor on my desk – encased in Lucite, next to the coin which the first President threw across a river.

We will not be defeated. We must press on, looking neither to the right nor to the left, but looking forward – toward that day which even the most cynical among us must realize is The Future. There is a New Day dawning in America. Seven days a week.

It's not Romney. Promise.



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