INSPIRATION IS INSPIRING
When I was drafted into the Army in 1961 I was stationed in Springfield, Massachusetts. Luckily my job was being a Psychological Testor who worked out of the induction office on Main Street. One day I noticed a sign on a street lamp indicating that Ted Kennedy was going to make a campaigne speech in the nearby Court House in his new quest to become a United State Senator from Massachusetts.
Having had great affection for his brother - JFK - I eagerly looked forward to hearing Ted do his thing. I congradulate myself on my good move. After a minute an a half I was bowled over my his presence, his passion, his good sense, his compassion, his sense of dedication and purpose. Thoroughly inspired I knew I was in a special atmosphere - an atmosphere filled with the inspiration of potential greatness.
Since that event there have been a few - a very few - times where I have experienced that same notable and rare sense of special spirit. One of them has been relatively recent when I felt the same special inspiring excitement listening to Barak Obama in Washington Square Park next to NYU.
I trust my intution and am willing to chance that a vote for Obama is a ticket to potential greatness for all of us.
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Not to wish ill for Teddy by the way.
Obama is charismatic and that's all. He has no substance. His record as a senator sucks. His immigration policy sucks, his abortion policy sucks, his gun control policy sucks, his votes on allowing illegal aliens to get social security sucks, Need I continue?
Ted Kennedy is a leech on society. And while I would wish cancer on no one, the senate will be better off with him gone.
Bobby, on the other hand was something very special, and I will always remember the moment when I shook his hand. His death hit me very hard, and I lost all interest in politics after that tragic event. This country would have been a very different--and much better--place if he'd become President.
In my opinion no one who has aspired to the office since that time has offered the same kind of hope for positive change and truly principled leadership--until Barack Obama appeared on the scene. I hope to be able to see him taking the oath of office in January.
(As for you Don, why don't you crawl back into your spider hole and suck on some more of those lemons you seem to love so much. )
Senator Obama exudes something that I can only describe as authenticity. His opponents don't want to believe it, but the 80,000 people at his Portland rally makes it impossible for the naysayers to ignore.
Obama '08.