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Thread #113790   Message #2425528
Posted By: GUEST,Dani
29-Aug-08 - 11:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: Observations of the Democratic Convention
Subject: RE: BS: Observations of the Dem. Nat. Convention
You're missing the point, Sins. Last night he re-iterated: "this has never been about me. It's about you."

THAT is the reason I have been giving what little spare time and change I have to this campaign. THAT is why I poke my daughters, make them look, pay attention, help, get involved, ask, question, challenge, even though they can't vote yet.

THAT is why when Bill Clinton came to my little town just before the primaries there were MAYBE 200 people, tops, who came to see him, and when Obama came the next week, there were 18,000 (I said eighteen THOUSAND!)shiny, happy, engaged, young, old, black, white, all FLAVORS of people out to see him, and listen to him challenge THEM to work on figuring out the problems that face their own communities.

He GETS that no one man, or woman, or whatever, can tackle the mess we're in alone. But sometimes, one man can inspire the PEOPLE to take it on.

Dani