Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2008

Obama

SO I got to meet Barack Obama last night. I waited out in line for over 6 hours and with a little help from a friend, got the first seat in the first row in front of the stage. Barack spoke for about an hour, and my GF helped him out with a few words, which he credited her. Then at the end he came down and shook my hand, and it was great. So, yeah, it was a good day!



Thursday, March 20, 2008

Obama / Santos

It is absolutely amazing how reality and fiction correspond with each other. A minority candidate running against an old white guy. Season 7 Episode 8 - Undecideds.... a speach bridging the races, going against what his own advisors say, Santos gives a GREAT speach in a black church on race. March 18 - Obama gives possibly the best speech in a generation on Race. A nation divided, we need a president to bring America together, not to drive us even further apart.

"We will walk together, work together, and slowly things will get better"

"Working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union."

Can you figure out which is Obama and which is Santos....

Does it matter? If we can elect someone who is working towards bridging the racial divide, that is who this country needs. If we can elect someone who has an idea of the challenges that face this nation, not only the external ones (terrorism, a flailing economy, a weak dollar, corupt russian and chinese governments who suppress human rights...), and not just internal domestic problems (economy, jobs going overseas, lack of health insurance, etc..), but the internal problems inside American hearts and minds.