I sit here on Sunday morning, January 18th, after a full day on Saturday of watching Obama, his wife and Joe and Jill Biden, take the train to DC. The massive crowds by the train stops waving and the speeches and just the enormity of it all; have given me such great hope and great joy. This president is unlike any we have ever known. I am so glad and proud to have participated in his campaign. Everything from baking biscotti for that early bake sale in Oberlin, to canvassing my neighborhood to sending money to the campaign.
I felt the stirrings of getting into the political arena during the Clinton years after a long dry spell after campaigning for McGovern and being so beaten up doing it. I finally took the plunge into campaigning for John Kerry in 2004 after being so disgusted with Bush's first term. Ashland didn't have much going on so I went to Mansfield and made new friends who thought like I did. It was invigorating but of course the outcome was failure and everyone just went home. End of story until the Obama campaign. He and his team have it so right. We worked from the ground up; starting in our own neighborhoods. And now that the campaign is over, OUR work, along with his; is just getting started. I am excited, scared, happy and touched to be a part of the biggest challenge any of us have ever faced.....two days and I will for the first time fly an American flag on my home.
I felt the stirrings of getting into the political arena during the Clinton years after a long dry spell after campaigning for McGovern and being so beaten up doing it. I finally took the plunge into campaigning for John Kerry in 2004 after being so disgusted with Bush's first term. Ashland didn't have much going on so I went to Mansfield and made new friends who thought like I did. It was invigorating but of course the outcome was failure and everyone just went home. End of story until the Obama campaign. He and his team have it so right. We worked from the ground up; starting in our own neighborhoods. And now that the campaign is over, OUR work, along with his; is just getting started. I am excited, scared, happy and touched to be a part of the biggest challenge any of us have ever faced.....two days and I will for the first time fly an American flag on my home.
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