Charles Meets Barack
Another touching story. My late maternal grandmother is about the same age as Charles. I think she would have felt the same way…
Charles is correct in that many people his age have passed away. All of my grandparents are now dead. I thought of them when I cast my ballot this week and how proud they would be. This is why we can’t take let up. Charles is truly blessed to have lived through such hardship and to have seen some of the worst of this country to see some of the best.
To show the dedication and the importance of this pivotal election, my sister is a resident of Pennsylvania, but has been staying in Tennessee the past couple of months. She requested an absentee ballot, but never received it. So to make sure she gets an opportunity to vote, she is flying back to Philadelphia to cast her vote in person for Obama and volunteer for the campaign while she is there.
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thanks for posting that, got a little dust in my eye from it….
obama seems to be as much antimuslim as mccain. Voting Ralph nader may be a better option!
Yes, when look at that clip, I think about those people that died before me.
After I submitted my vote, my brother, along with my nephs and my uncle came and got me. As we were talking, one of my nephews said that he wanted to come in the place withme, but got a little intimidated by the long lines( and kids couldn’t come in this polling station),but he witnessed history from the outside. I don’t know about them,but it’s something that I’ll never forget.
Never in my thirty something years did I ever think that I would witness anything as historic as this. It would fascinate me when my folks would tell me stories of being exposed to people like Martin Luther King or about JFK visiting my mom’s hometown, events that would shape their then-young lives. I only thought that it would only be their experiences.
Not only do I get to witness history, but so do my nephs and their peers. My sister has been making a scrapbook for a long time, but she’s now including politics in this one, something for my nephs to let their kids see( if god permit them to be parents and if they desire to be such)it. I could just imagine them telling them.” I’ll never forget that time, when Obama was running for president………….”. My uncle took a couple of pictures of me and an a couple of voters who was kind enough to let him do it.
My late grandfather wasn’t big on politics, but when it came to Voting Rights ,he did talk about it.. Before my sibs and I were old enough to vote, he reminded us that this right is a ” must do”. He would tell us that the vote, whether the candidate lost/won was about as he put it”about the people before us …about the ancestors………..”Initially, his message sounded weird to me, but I got what he was saying. He didn’t accept excuses for not voting( unless, we we’re imprisoned convicted felons or dead). Rain,or shine.. he didn’t want to hear that. He insisted that we vote. Even though none of my nephs are over 11 years old, we still try to teach a little something about voting rights. This is what my grandpops did with his kids and us. If he was alive, he would also do talk about it with them.
I also thought about my favorite maternal grandmother who passed on Christmas eve of last year and my great grandmother in 2004. They all talked about politics. As a matter of fact, my late grandmother was talking about voting for Barack.
My paternal grandmother is still here. I still find it amazing that she has casted her ballot in these historic elections.(And another picture for the scrapbook). She’s 85 year old. She’s amazed, in awe about this.
Nader,
What do you mean by anti-Muslim? Are you solely basing your judgment on how both McCain and Obama do not condemn Israel? What about the rest of the 1 billion Muslims in the world? Obama has very a very different stance than McCain when it comes to getting to the negotiating table with Syria and Iran and the US occupation of Iraq. I think you need to qualify your statements. I’m no political scientist, but I get irritated when Muslims spout off some unsophisticated and rather crude analysis about politics. Isn’t that how we got Bush in the first place? Fine if you have your opinions, but trying to cajole other Muslims with some uninformed–but pretending to take the moral high horse–statements is just plain irresponsible.
By the way Tariq, I’ve been back in the US since September.
You can change me back to bloggers in the US
Folks are just quaffin’ the Kool Aid. Barrack Hussein is a POLITICIAN! Barrack Hussein, like all major politicians, is IN THE POCKET of the very same people who run the banking, financial, media, and military-industrial complex institutions. It should be pretty obvious that he is a media produced and packaged CELEBRITY. By this point, one would think that folks are sophisticated enough to understand that WHOMEVER one may choose to vote for at the diebold machine, that they are not concerned about the average working or poor American. They are working for the folks/corporations with BIG MONEY–not people giving $100 donations.
Barrack Hussein is calling for MORE GOVERNMENT influence and power in people’s lives–which means a greater concentration of power in the hands of banksters who run the show. The fact of the matter is that the VAST MAJORITY of Americans will not be able to compete in an increasing globalized economy–or in a nation that does not secure its borders. High paying jobs will be outsourced, and Latino immigrants will do the menial work. This, along with the monopoly-money being printed at the privately owned Federal Reserve, means that Barrack Hussein isn’t going to be able to do more than put a couple of Band-aids on the economy… at best.
Same rap, folks. Don’t be fooled by the color of the packaging:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etWLwrvT2vo
The Fed is not privately owned.
Daud,
The Fed is a hybrid institution (that is, it’s members are privately owned), which is really besides the point–the American public is still getting shylocked by the same usurious overlords who print the money. And the politicians, including Barrack Hussein–who are in the bankers’ pockets–aren’t going to bite the hand that feeds them. Perhaps, Barrack Hussein will throw the masses a few more crumbs, but the system is not going to change. And in all likelihood Barrack Hussein is going to call for even a greater concentration of power into the hands of the government.
The choice is clear between Barrack Obama and John McCain. Neither candidate is saying EXACTLY what I want to hear but 1 speaks closer to who I am than the other. Also the choice is clear between the Vice Presidential candidates. Sarah Palin is no friend to women, Muslims or people of color.
IMO if you will the Obama/Biden is best of whats available
From the point of view of a non-American, I just hope Obama’s foreign policy is a little more Doveish and a little less Hawkish.