Senator Barack Obama was in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday. Barack Obama is an amazing man. He has everything it takes to be among the greatest. He is exceptional and he is absolutely right for this time in history. It is his time.
I believe Barack Obama is the best hope for America as we move into the 2008 presidential election. I want him elected President of the United States. We need Barack Obama. America needs Obama.
I was first able to cast a vote in a presidential election in 1968. In the California primaries I voted for Robert F. Kennedy. He won the primary but the next day he was dead: assassinated in Los Angeles. The Democratic nominee was Hubert Humphrey, for whom I voted. As we know all too well, the winner of that election was the Republican: Richard Nixon.
The first presidential election for which I campaigned was for Robert F. Kennedy. That was also the last time I was excited by a candidate whom I really supported without reservation.
Thirty-eight years later: enter Barack Obama. He's a 45 year-old Democrat who is a United States Senator from Illinois. He stood against the Bush Administration decision to invade Iraq and he supports a phased withdrawal of our troops. His ideas on saving America's schools and making a college education available to every American child are impressive concepts. Obama's clear vision for peace in the Mideast and with the Muslim world combined with his mastery of the economics of globalization, an extremely complicated subject, make it clear he is the man who is right for this time.
Read Barack Obama's new book, The Audacity of Hope, which is destined to be discussed in university classrooms for decades to come, particularly after his presidency. The book reminds me of another book once written by a U.S. Senator soon to be elected President of the United States. The book was Profiles in Courage and the author was John F. Kennedy.
Buy and read the Audacity of Hope.
I only ask that you NOT order the book online. Go to a neighborhood bookstore and buy it from the local folks. Keep your money in the community.
Story links:
U. S. Senator Barack Obama (official government site)
Barack Obama (non-government site)
About Barack Obama (Wikipedia)
The Audacity of Hope (review by the Harvard Political review)
U. S. Senator Barack Obama (official government site)
Barack Obama (non-government site)
About Barack Obama (Wikipedia)
The Audacity of Hope (review by the Harvard Political review)
1 comments:
thanks for that posting on obama. excellent blog!
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