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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
Letter from Kim Morrison
Homosassa, Florida
The word change in some phrase or form comes up every time there is a presidential election. Most people want change, but at the same time many of us are very much afraid of it too because it is an animal that is unknown to a lot of us, and we are all fearful of that which we do not know or do not understand. Some of us who have been urinated on and exploited by politicians in past stand in suspended disbelief when we hear political candidates promise change because we wonder if the promise of change is going to live on after election day, or evaporate just like it has always done in the past. We wonder will this presidential candidate be the keeper of our promise, or will he or she just be another dasher of hopes. We want to believe the real deal is possible, but the fear of winding up in a crumpled heap next to the tracks of change with the hope stomped out of us leaves us even more doubtful, and less trusting each time it happens. However, on election day, some of us will exercise a right that is in more dire need of exercise than a “Dunkin Doughnut” patron, and cast a vote for the person who could become our next president.
I am a supposed to be the angry middle-aged white guy. I am the guy the Republican Party preached to, and prayed upon to win election after election, and then watched as they accomplished nothing, but to cause more harm to our great nation. This time, I am going to throw caution to the wind, and say to heck with the same old faces, same tired dialogue, and yes, even experience, because if you consider who we have in the oval office the thought of someone experienced as president again is a scary one. I am going to take a chance again and dare to believe that there is someone in this race that truly does represent change. Someone that will stand, and deliver on some of their promises, someone who will restore our faith in government, a person we could actually be proud we voted for.
On election day, I am going to cast my vote for Barrack Obama. I am not voting for him because I think he can win, or because I think he can accomplish every one of his goals, or keep every one of his promises, nor do I think he has the best credentials to be president. The one thing he does have is passion, and that is something that is sorely lacking in politics. We see in him someone that will at least try to keep his promises. We see in him someone that appears to be truthful even about himself. We sense that he passionately believes we can, as a people do better and be better. He inspires in us a sense of hope that the youth of our nation has never seen -- that same sense of hope that some of us felt, oh so briefly, about a half century ago.
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