I'll need to post more than I do to get anything out of this, eh? Just so much going on: some good, some bad, and some may end up here but not right now.



   I've been following this Presidential Campaign with an almost religious ferver. After 8 years of knowing that my aspirations to the middle-class were foolhardy because there was no more middle class, I promptly wrote off the system, the country, and settled in for a long slow death.

My mistake was, of course, settling in & planning anything.

         Hillary seemed the most promising candidate at first. Rather, the most familiar to me. Certainly the Least of All Possible Evils.  With regret, I have to admit that's how I've had to vote in the last few Presidential Elections. "He Who Will Do the Least Harm To Me & Mine". That guy hasn't won in a long, long time. 

  Then I heard the rumblings of a Junior Senator from Illinois. My initial reaction was "He's crazy".  But that was just a sign of how jaded I'd become. 

I believe Barack Obama & his message of change...of not doing things the way they've been done before...is exactly what we need. He has a tax plan to reinvigorate the middle & working classes, incentives (penalties) to keep jobs in America. And he spells it all out. It's not vague and "oh, yeah I have a plan & it's a doozy just vote me in & I'll show ya".  

As a speaker, he fires you up. He makes you believe. ANd if he can do that to a self-proclaimed Cynic, I'm thinking he can get the Democrats, Republicans & Independents in the same chapter, if not the same page.