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with all positivity intended vibes, as a straight girl who is 100% down for equal gay rights in marriage, health insurance, everything, etc....
please please please take a chance to read his book the audacity of hope. obama is candid about the conflict he faces between his personal life and his role as an elected person pledged to act in the interests of many.
i was impressed by obama in 2004 at the DNC convention, not impressed by him when he first announced his candidacy, but then my older cousin suggested i read his books.
then i was impressed by him. but only on paper. i too thought he was untested, unready, naive.
then he got stronger as hillary became more shrill. and i saw the man who i came to know on those pages on my tv screen.
ultimately, i don't trust shrillary's motives. but i do trust obama's.
no one is perfect, and i'm certain barack will take some missteps and make some blunders, but he is a good harbinger of the type of wave of grassroots energy that it would take to give your interests the validation in the law that they deserve.
please don't forget Bill Clinton threw us all under the bus. also, don't forget that actually many more civil rights laws were passed under - gulp - Nixon's administration than JFK or clinton. Nixon's administration and congress brought us title 9. not making a hero outta nixon, but i'm just sayin'.
sometimes it's not a horse, it's a zebra.
shrillary would send a sign that things would stay the same, and so many people would feel disenfranchised and left out.
mccain is a more liberal kind of guy, but if he did become president, he'd be so hamstrung by the GOP i doubt he could set the type of tone needed for the types of (please pardon me for using this word, but) --- CHANGE we need.
with all positivity intended vibes, as a straight girl who is 100% down for equal gay rights in marriage, health insurance, everything, etc....
please please please take a chance to read his book the audacity of hope. obama is candid about the conflict he faces between his personal life and his role as an elected person pledged to act in the interests of many.
i was impressed by obama in 2004 at the DNC convention, not impressed by him when he first announced his candidacy, but then my older cousin suggested i read his books.
then i was impressed by him. but only on paper. i too thought he was untested, unready, naive.
then he got stronger as hillary became more shrill. and i saw the man who i came to know on those pages on my tv screen.
ultimately, i don't trust shrillary's motives. but i do trust obama's.
no one is perfect, and i'm certain barack will take some missteps and make some blunders, but he is a good harbinger of the type of wave of grassroots energy that it would take to give your interests the validation in the law that they deserve.
please don't forget Bill Clinton threw us all under the bus. also, don't forget that actually many more civil rights laws were passed under - gulp - Nixon's administration than JFK or clinton. Nixon's administration and congress brought us title 9. not making a hero outta nixon, but i'm just sayin'.
sometimes it's not a horse, it's a zebra.
shrillary would send a sign that things would stay the same, and so many people would feel disenfranchised and left out.
mccain is a more liberal kind of guy, but if he did become president, he'd be so hamstrung by the GOP i doubt he could set the type of tone needed for the types of (please pardon me for using this word, but) --- CHANGE we need.
continued blessings to you.