This Time It Is Different

I am a 60 year old white female with too much education to be Hillary Clinton’s base but otherwise in that demographic.

I have been registered Independent for my entire adult life, but I can’t remember voting Republican ever. I always end up with the Democrat, sometimes without much enthusiasm.

This time it is fundamentally different. This time I am INSPIRED. It’s a new and profound feeling. From that inspiration I have gotten involved. I am working every day in the ways I can to support Barack Obama. I am writing letters, voicing opinions and concerns on the blog and to the media and Politicians. I have donated the maximum allowed to his campaign (again a first) and intend to do the same for the General Election provided he is nominated. I am strongly against the old style of politics that HRC and camp are using in their campaign. I have always found this divisive means of campaigning off putting and discouraging. It is fundamentally why many campaigns have left me holding my nose for the Democratic Candidate.

I have never been moved by anyone as Senator Obama moves me. I remember John and Robert Kennedy but I was young, too young to be fully involved other than mourning their losses. I marched for MLK and his courageous fight for equality. Senator Obama is like a breath of fresh air, like a new morning sun, like a fresh rain after a long dry spell. He is the ONE we have been waiting for. We are the ONES we have been waiting for. It is our time, finally!

I am a mother of two and grandmother of four. My passion is partly for them. I want them to have a better world and not one like the one they would inherit if we did nothing but elect a new President without changing the face of politics itself.

I have lived long enough to know how hard change is. I have practiced Psychotherapy for over 30 years and worked with and watched many individuals struggle to change long held patterns. It is hard, but not impossible.

Our challenges are great, the fierce urgency of now is upon us. Now is the time for this great leader to rise to his Purpose and begin the huge and daunting task of bringing our country together so we can once again lead the world into the 21st Century.

It is an honor to speak about my feelings and to stand behind Barack Obama and his candidacy.

Jaquelin P.
San Diego, CA