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“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”~Martin Luther King Jr.

I figured with the Iowa Caucuses over with, I’d chime in my opinion of it all. I had a couple of serious issues to overcome, problems that I needed to be solved. Before the post-caucus speeches and finally tallies chimed in, I figured out how to watch the Orange Bowl and watch the Iowa Caucus at the same time.

Thank goodness for Picture in Picture.

Something about politics excites me, especially now that I’m older and dare I say wiser. I think it excites me now more than ever because now more than ever I see the adverse effects it has on me. Whether it be the the $40,000,000,000 in revenue the oil and gas companies make while I pay 3$ for each gallon at the pump, the removal of “God We Trust” from every public location, the removal of a Christmas tree because it has the word “Christ” in it or Merry Christmas being converted to Happy Holidays, another friend being shipped to Iraq to help in a civil war while his fathers job is being shipped overseas because it’s cheaper. I get easily excited when thinking about the benevolance Americans show to Africa with AIDS or world peace and yet I see the free hospital down the road jam packed so full of people begging for help, or the illegal immigrants who children are able to obtain legal citizenship because they were born here, educated here, and yet not paying taxes that would be otherwise used in our public school systems. Perhaps it’s the lack of federal funding for disease research, cancer research and stem cell research to save hundreds of thousands of lives every year that gets me excited.

“If a man hasn’t found something worth dieing for, he isn’t fit to live.”~Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps excited isn’t the correct word or phrase to be using here. Perhaps what I really mean is downright utterly disgusted by, heart pumping and blood boiling excited about politics.

I don’t know … maybe I’m just another self-involved, selfish, conceded, stuck up, rotten overzealous American.

I prefer the term “Hopeful”, but if you feel the need to use the former, feel free to do so.

Whether or not you care about politics, one thing is for certain. 01/03/08 will be forever remembered the eyes of Americans. I’m sure if MLK were to be looking down on us now, which I’m sure he is, he’d be smiling. His smiles would quickly turn to childish anger as so many angels would be pinching him, as an indication that he is no longer dreaming. That his dream has turned to reality, if even for a day.

I’m no fool, nor is MLK, so I’m sure if he were here today he would proclaim that his statements and quotes of peace and unity go far beyond black and white with the color of our skin, red and blue with the color of our states, gay or straight with or sexual orientation, male or female, religious or not. I’m sure he would continue to preach …

Why?

Because we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

An African American won the Democratic Iowa Caucus.

Amazing.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Hope. Unification. Change. Character. Some of the things I see in Obama. Some of the things that I have really come to appreciate in Obama. Know that I don’t vote for a president, I vote for America. For you, for me, your kids, your grandkids. What I feel is best …

There are some that would disagree with me, but that’s ok, and to be perfectly honest, It’s a beautiful thing that we are in a country that we are able to disagree, and after our debate to grab a beer. My feeling is, to have an opinion, even if it’s wrong in my eyes, is better than not having an opinion at all.

So again, know that I don’t vote for Obama. I don’t vote democratically. I vote for hope, the hope that we as Americans get back on the right track, for where we are heading currently, I feel, isn’t to greener pastures

“Together ordinary people can do extraordinary things, because we are not a collection of red states or blue states, but the United States of America” ~ Barack Obama  

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