"Eight is Enough!"

(Originally posted on 9/29/08 at 5:59 AM)

Wow...

I just got through watching Barack Obama give his acceptance speech for Democratic Presidential Nominee.

I'm a little speechless right now. I still have chills. I cried. I clapped. I grinned from ear to ear and yelled, "Yes!" in my livingroom. I am moved. I am inspired. I am ready to do whatever I can to get Barack Obama in the white house in January 20, 2009.

I feel so proud. I worked so hard over the last year to get Obama my party's nomination for President of the U.S.A. I've gone all the way to Austin as an elected state delegate for Obama and would have gone all the way to Denver. I talked to everyone I could. I donated to a political campaign for the first time. I volunteered for the first time. I was inspired by a "politician" for the first time.

Obama is our nominee and he -will- be our president. I have never felt to inspired to get involved with my government. All my life, I felt like I don't matter to my government. I'm the little person. As long as I pay my taxes, they do not care what I do or where I go in life. But Obama has been in my shoes. He knows what it is like to struggle through college. To be born into poverty. No other presidential candidate, in my lifetime, has understood -our- struggle. He -will- fight for us. Voting for Barack Obama is like voting for ourselves. We need the change that he can bring. That -we- can bring, as a nation, united together by our common struggles and concerns.

Barack Obama can't do this alone. We have to get involved. We have to vote - not just in the presidental elections but our senatorial, state, gubatorial, county, and city elections. We have to get involved with our community. We have to work to change our country along with our future president.

I have no more to say. Except, vote! Register by Oct. 4th if you are not registered already. In Texas, you have to register at least 30 days before any election to vote in that election. And don't give me that crap about "my vote doesn't count" or "why vote if the electoral college elects the president". We know by watching the last two elections that our vote DOES count. And how the electoral college works is that every state is given a certain amount of votes in the electoral college (in TX we get 34 per party - which we elect at the state convention- I know, I was there and Senatorial District #'s electoral college member is C.Y.). Whichever way the popular vote goes (Dem or Rep or Independent), the popular vote winning party gets to send their electoral college voters to the state in December to actually 'elect' the president. The people that we elected to the electoral college will NOT vote against our party.

So, please, get out there and vote this election year. Maybe you'll see me at the polls (I'll be handing out ballots). :-D