It's Called Representation

At times like these, it's helpful to reappraise why our fervor and dedication to a Democratic White House, and specifically an Obama White House, are so fierce.

Because it doesn't realy matter what we think, so we went back out on the streets and gas station forecourts canvassing and asking the electorate whose policies best fit the American People's Hopes and Requirements?

In our experience, when we’ve spoken to people across America, in districts and cities and states from Brooklyn to DC to Tennessee to New Orleans and, now, California, their lives and their ambitions are directly reflected in the Obama campaign's policies and are often the polar opposite of the McCain dictat.

Obama's support of these people's needs is not Socialism, it’s not even Populism, it’s Representation, plain and simple.

And that truth, in spite of an economy in freefall; in spite of a $15 billion monthly war bill; in spite of a healthcare program that doesn’t protect the people who need it most; and, most reassuringly in 2008, in spite of the incendiary rhetoric of the McCain-Palin campaign – that truth is the basis of democracy and the tide of Renewal, Hope and Action that will sweep the most gifted leader of his generation to the White House next week and begin to repair our communities and our world.

Here are some of the eloquent tales and Hopes of some of the people we’ve been talking to on the road…

Introduction


Please repair the standing of the United States in the Global Community - Nathan, Louisiana


I want our granddaughters to go to college without bankrupting their parents - Mary, New York City


If there's going to be a change, it has to be Obama - John, Texas


Let's get beyond partisan politics in Washington - Tom, California


We need to get school-wise, job-wise


More better jobs...to support my kids