Once Upon a Time
29 August 2008
Barack Obama is the Democratic Party’s candidate for President. That isn’t good enough for him though. He wants to be America’s candidate for President. On November 4th we will see.
He has a familiar story. He comes from a broken family. He idolized his grandparents. He was devastated by his mother’s death. He left college with tens of thousands of dollars of debt. He met a girl he didn’t think he was good enough for. He kept asking her out anyway. At then end of his wedding day, he collapsed onto a bench and was content to just hold her and revel in his marital status. He drove at a snail’s pace the day he took his daughter home.
He started out as many of us, knowing the world wasn’t as it should be. The difference is he dedicated himself to changing it. In so doing, he may change us all. He knows who we are. He understands our fears and our hardships. He shares our hopes and dreams. They are his hopes and dreams.
He’s so close to making the difference his mother made him believe he could. He will not squander it. His votes will not be stolen. He will not be swift-boated into the shadows. He will fight, for his family and for ours. All he asks is that he not stand alone. None of us are better off alone. America is at her best when we lift each other up. We stand taller when we stand together.
Aaron Sorkin wrote of a President who would stand up and say, “we’ve got serious problems, and we need serious men.”
Tonight I heard a Presidential-hopeful say, “America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone.”
Fact maybe stranger than fiction after all.
In a town much like the one you live, the next president of our country is a child. What kind of world do we want him/her to grow up in.
The American legacy has begun to shift. Hope has landed.
Don’t let Cheney shoot it.
