Barack and Me

Well, I had my first taste of being far away from home this morning, as I watched the early morning coverage here in Europe of Barack's speech last night. Via CNN, BBC and SKY News, I watched as much as I could. The little of the speech I did hear gave me goose bumps. I already had had some late night emails from friends indicating the strength of the oratory, and I expected nothing less.

I began supporting Obama with my dollars back in January 2007. I believed in his message from the first time I heard him, and haven't been disappointed since. He's also got a great team working for him, the sign of a good leader, and I think he's got the chutzpah to win this election.

But he's not going to win unless we all make it happen. Don't wait for miracles! Talk your friends into going to the polls and voting. And voting Democratic, even if they have some issues with Barack. He can't be anything like the Bush-Cheney debacle of the past 8 years. I'm a strong fiscal conservative, but I'm willing to bet that Barack would not be able to do anything as bad as build a trillion dollar war budget that doesn't even figure into our fiscal budget.

Obama is basically my age, graduated from the same university as I, went to law school, and didn't follow the grain by going to work for a big law firm - that makes two of us. I think I understand where he's coming from, and I fully support whatever gut feel he has for making decisions about the direction our country should be headed.

I hope you will support him too. Vote Democratic. Vote Obama! (Oh yeah, Biden too.)