As Super Tuesday 2 comes to a close, there are some new developments. First off, Senator John McCain obviously grabs the GOP nomination. To me, there is no surprise there since he has been ahead for quite sometime. But since I am, as you may know, a democrat, I would like to focus on that part of the recent preliminaries.
Obama won the preliminary in Vermont, while Clinton won Rhode Island. Since this was a time that Hillary needed in order to stay in the race, she seems to be keeping her foot in the door. With the other two states, Clinton had a lead in Ohio and Obama had took an early lead in Texas. As of now, the precincts are still reporting so the tallies are still unknown completely.
In my life, I have never been one to follow elections so closely. The first president I actually followed his career and praised was Bill Clinton. However, the previous elections never really caught my interest. Of course I had to do reports for some of my classes with the last election between Bush and Kerry. I did know that I did not want Bush to win, but still did not follow too closely.
I do not know exactly what sparked my interest with this election. Whether it was the fact that history was being made with a woman and African American man in the race, but that was just not it. I think it was the fact that Democrats finally have the chance to overpower the political system. There have been sayings that if it were between Clinton and McCain, McCain would easily win. But if it were between Obama and McCain, Obama would win. I truly believe this and hope that it turns out this way. However, with politics you never can tell!
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I feel the same about this years campaign. (About following it so closely) I was only able to vote in one other election because I am only 22 now, and I really felt that neither candidate was for me. I think I watched two debates and then said screw it, I'll just vote for Kerry so hopefully we won't have four more years with the biggest idiot to ever enter the white house. I remember the day when he said we are invading Iraq, I was a sophmore in highschool and my history teacher put the news on in first period. I cried as I thought to myself, "Isn't he suppose to be a christian president, what about turn the other cheek? This isn't going to help anything, only create more violence." My heart aches for the thousands of people that are still losing there lives. Two years ago in my poetry class someone read a poem about a friend who went to Irag. The soldier was approached by a child carrying a black object and his higher authority yelled to him to shoot the child, he obeyed, and they discovered the chld was holding a water balloon. That soldier is now living in a mental hospital because he can't get over his grief of killing an innocent child. It's stories like that that make me want to vote and pay attention to this election. I do not want a "war president," I want a PEACE president! I have actually started crying when I listen to some of Obama's speeches, and I know that it's is not just because he has people that right good speeches, I truly believe that HE believes what he is saying, and that is important to me. Anyway...GO OBAMA! Oh by the way, did you watch the video?
"You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one." - John Lennon
"I'M ASKING YOU TO BELIEVE.
Not just about my ability to bring about real change in Washington ... I am asking you to believe in yours."
Sen. Barack Obama
Minorities like me used to have barriers in voting, our fundamental American right to express who we want to serve our country. History tells us that there used to be property requirements and literacy "must have" qualifications along with other standards that needed to be met before people's voices could be heard... before anyone could vote!
Now in 2008, should there still be obstacles in making sure that people's votes would be counted? Like Senator Barack Obama asked in the beginning of the 21st century, "do we still have to wonder whether our civil rights would be protected by our government" or "whether justice would be equal and opportunity would be ours... We have more work to do.” Barack Obama's Speech
Senator Obama has been an advocate. He has an excellent record of advocacy. Sen. Obama has worked to promote civil rights and fairness in the criminal justice system throughout his career. As a community organizer, Sen. Obama helped 150,000 African Americans register to vote. As a civil rights lawyer, Obama litigated employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and voting rights cases. As a State Senator, Obama passed one of the country's first racial profiling laws and helped reform a broken death penalty system.
In our country, Sen. Obama has been a leading advocate for protecting the right to vote, helping to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and leading the opposition against discriminatory barriers to voting.
He is asking us to believe in our ability to bring about change. I am FOR DIPLOMACY. I believe and support a leader who believes in peace and will not vote for our country to invade another country just because we are the United States of America. Like hippiegurl, I also believe that Sen. Obama means what he says.
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