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<a href="http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/21/nurse-bring-me-my-guitar-mercy-and-revolution/">FiredogLake connects "Big White Gate" to our current economic turmoil.</a> 

<blockquote>At a singer-songwriter circle in a small Nashville Convention Center room, rising star Grace Potter sang a song she'd written about her grandmother. The 84-year-old woman is in the hospital about to die, and she's "heard about forgiveness" so she's petitioning for mercy, noting that she might have been a bad mother and a bad wife, but she could sing.

Near the song's end, the old woman sings, "Nurse, bring me my guitar."

I think that's what America's saying today. Our democracy's disappearing, our economy's been pillaged by pirates. We have hope. There's a tough and forceful black man, Barack Obama, who hopes to overcome a nation torn by centuries of racial hatred and distrust and become our first African American President.

Like Grace Potter's grandmother, this is a good time for America to reach for a guitar. Sing for mercy. And revolution.</blockquote>