We watched Senator Obama speak tonight on the loss of his grandmother,Madelyn Dunham(1922-2008), and offer our condolences. On the eve of this election, we send our deepest respects. As Senator Obams said;
".. it's hard to talk about."
Grandmothers in America are often overlooked in the contributions they make everyday. Some are the only parents children know. His comments invoked memories of my grandmother. During the Civil Rights era, we often watched the news together. Dr. King's marches, and arrests, George Wallace's defiant speech on segregation..."now and forever."
I wish that she, and my late father had lived to see the movement, and political tsunami of Senator Obama.
...to see America at the dawn of a new attitude.
I researched Senator Obama's state website, and as a member of Congress, to read his positions on issues from Civil Rights to Darfur, to Education. I read both books, and made a decision millions now have, that Barack Obama is a leader for our time.
Hope has arisen in this campaign, and they are not just youngsters. Americans of all hues, ages, and backgrounds are inspired by Obama's story. The transformation of ideas into action, and the inspiration to make dreams realized. Change we need after the direction this clueless administration took us-- war, and economic chaos. Fighting low by using race as a fear factor.
No matter what happens tomorrow, Barack Obama made history in fund raising, in grassroots organizing, in changing the politics of fear, and his supporters recognized this as a movement for change.
Tomorrow we shall see, and make sure, they don't steal this one!
America must choose between a past scarred by the memory of Emmett Till, to a time when we are judged;
"...by the content of one's character".
Many of us over 30 who worked for this day know America was a very different place during the 50's and 60's, and the 21st century smear attacks against Senator Obama have been sowed with a page from that legacy.
Tomorrow, we have a choice. Pray this nation gets it right.
I will be at the polls at 6:00 A.M tomorrow.
VOTE!
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