I am a huge Obama supporter. His message of hope touches me to the core. I don't remember ever being this invested in any political campaign. Until about around Sept/Oct 2007 I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. That started when she purposed her health care plan some years back. Ever since I held the opinion that Monicagate was all about Republican subterfuge. I thought Hillary was a strong competent woman that intimidated political men. Then Obama came to focus on my radar. My son came back from his barber with a handout advertising that Barack would hold a meeting there. Now I know the barber and like him well enough but I scoffed at what I believed was just some barbershop bluffing. Guess what? He really came. Sat in one of the chairs, got a haircut and just talked to the people gathered. Now I currently live in a small rural SC town. Most people have never even heard of it. But Obama had. That did it. I signed up as a volunteer. Any candidate that made it his business to connect personally with small town folks, well this was something different. This was someone that was reaching out and touching the masses. Figuratively and literally. At the Obama campaign office in town the campaign workers were impressive. They were young people who had left the familiarity of their home states, Ohio, New Hampshire, etc. to come to a rural southern town to convince us how great Obama was. Some were Black and some were White. There were males and females. They all had Obama fever and they spread it. I'm proud to say I caught the fever. When he won Iowa I was ecstatic. When Bill Clinton started talking smack, I was livid. I didn't think Bill and Hillary would stoop so low. They did time and again. I made a personal resolution to work tirelessly to get Obama's message out. When he won SC, trouncing Hillary in a major way, I was so proud I could burst. Barack Obama has an intelligence and vision for a new America that is truly inspiring.
