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Dum spiro spero! OBAMA!

By MikeW - Jan 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am EST

Also listed in: Charleston SC for Obama | Charleston Southern University Students for Barack Obama | The Citadel Students for Barack Obama

Dum spiro spero, translated "While I Breathe, I Hope," our South Carolina state motto, is best personified in this year's presidential contest by candidate Barack Obama.Barack's audacious call for hope, pronounced in his autobiography and voiced at his campaign appearances, invigorates masses of Americans heretofore disillusioned and estranged from our government. His pragmatic message of bipartisanship and cooperation compels many thousands of South Carolinians to engage in politics like never before. Demographically, Barack's candidacy attracts diverse support like no other presidential candidate has done so far. Anecdotally speaking, age, gender, ethnicity, income and political affiliation are just some of the common barriers separating people being diminished by Barack's challenge for the presidency.Now, like never before, is the time for an American President who is an eloquent orator and an adroit politician who is capable of inspiring a majority of Americans to re-examine what it means to be an American and to re-engage in our government. Barack Obama's message of Hope is right for South Carolina!

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The "BAM"...The OBAMA Handshake!

By MikeW - Jan 12th, 2008 at 7:54 pm EST

THE BAM"... PASS IT ON AT THE NEXT OBAMA RALLY!

Having caught "Obama fever" like so many others rallying in support of Barack, I experienced something at a Barack Obama Rally on Thursday, January 10 at the College of Charleston here in Charleston, South Carolina, which I felt was both inspirational and spontaneous!

As Barack worked the line following the close of his speech, there was a surge of people moving forward hoping to get close enough to shake Barack's hand. Since I was standing about 20 feet back from center stage in the crowd, I felt the crowd down front tighten as many of us stood on our toes, stretched our bodies forward while reaching out to Barack. I noticed that a six foot tall guy who was standing in front of me had stretched far enough above the crowd and shook hands with Barack. As the guy drew back his hand I asked him, "You shook his hand didn't you?" Happily the guy said "Yes." I then said, "give me some of that" and the guy shook my hand with the same hand he had just clasped with Barack's. A woman friend of mine who was standing next to me saw me shake hands with the guy. I turned to her and said "He [the guy] just shook hands with Barack," to which she responded..."Hey, give it up." We then shook hands. She then turned to the person next to her and shook hands. This chain of hand shakes went on for about five or six more persons.

I did not know the tall guy in front of me; he is white, I am black. But at the moment we shook hands, I felt some solidarity with this stranger, consummated by a handshake and signifying some unspoken agreement presumably about Barack Obama and his core message of UNITY!

I call this hand-shake scenario the "BAM" because, descriptively, it takes a bit of Obama's name and it's the sound of a collision, of People Coming Together!

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