Category — Personal Stories

David Coleman: I Was There: What Obama Really Said About Pennsylvania - Politics on The Huffington Post

Just talked a Republican into voting for Obama in front of the polls. Yes we can make a difference. We just have to be in position to make a difference.

I attended the Collin County for Obama Caucus Training and couldn’t believe the support. The room looked like a meeting of the United Nations. People were hyped and I noticed something very striking, neighbors were talking to each other for the first time. We learned a great deal and I personally am ready for the caucus. In Texas, please remember to tell as many people as you can that they have to go back to the caucus at 7pm and be counted.

A very interesting read pointing out difference between the two candidates.

Rod Lurie: Why America Needs a Black President - Politics on The Huffington Post

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The following was posted by Mary B. at TheAtlantic.com

I am a woman.
I am white.
I am a grandmother.
I’ve struggled my whole life to work and raise my children.
My top income was $31,000.
I hate to say how little I live on now.
I read.
I research.
I want a good life for my grandchildren.
I want them to grow up in a country where they are not divided by race.
I want them to count on health care that they can afford, not be penalized because they can’t.
I want them to be able to go to college and to learn what a great feeling it is to help others as they earn money for college.
I want a leader that’s not afraid to say no and not afraid to admit a mistake.
I want a leader my grandchildren and all the children of this great land that they can respect and count on.

I will vote for Obama for President for the UNITED States of America.

I was sent this via email list for Collin County Obama members and was struck by the honesty and warmth.

“For Texans old enough to remember, he [Obama] recalls Barbara Jordan - not because of race, but because of the power of the spoken word. Decades ago in her campaigns for Congress, in small towns and large cities, in front of crowds who gathered at courthouses and on street corners, she became a political legend by reminding people of why they loved their country. She led old men in sweat-stained cowboy hats to weep openly at the beauty of the Constitution, the power of the American people, the depth of our belife in our own inherent decency.”

-Mary Mapes

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jordan

A Personal Story
I am old enough to have responded to Caroline Kennedy’s father when he challenged us to serve our country and I remember Barbara Jordan and was inspired by her language and leadership. She was my model for the ideal representative for the soul of progressive Texas.

In later years when our state was politically plundered by the Bush-Rove model, I packed up many times to leave and find sanity in a city like San Francisco where the multi-cultural experience was more than just an annual festival and the inclusion of political discussions in a dinner conversation was not viewed as a social faux pas. My 90-year-old Aunt Daisy, who currently claims to be one of three registered Democrats in her Bible-belt Texas county, would always recall Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards, and Molly Ivins as some of the best Texas ever had to offer. She would look at me with those bright blue eyes and say “well, darlin’ I can’t much blame you for thinkin’ about leaving - it’s been a while since we had Barbara and her ilk to show us the way. But our family’s been on this old dirt for seven generations now and I was kinda hopin’ you’d help pave the way for the next seven.” So I would unpack, call my friends in California and wonder if there was really any hope for my beloved state.
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