Hope

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Last night I was able to get over a small part of my disappointment about Hillary falling out of the race. I listened to Obama's entire speech, plus his little video biography, and I can honestly say I feel a little better about this election today. I would still vote for Hillary hands down over Obama and really felt like they could have been the Dream Team that repaired this country or at least got it going in the right direction, but it is what it is and at least Biden can make up for Obama's short-falls and vice versa. For the first time I'm filled with hope that we can put this country back together.

What concerns me this Friday morning is the lack of experience of McCain's VP candidate. I feel more so than Obama that something could happen to McCain (health-wise) while he is in office and the fact that he'd leave us with someone with little-to-no experience is really scary. Especially someone with no International experience and with all of the relationships that need to be repaired abroad, it's a little scary.

Who knows if I would have always been this passionate about politics, because I never used to be, but I think after spending the past 8 years seeing what's happening to our country and the economy, I'm very pumped about this election. There are so many people losing jobs and healthcare, how could you not vote for someone that is going to begin fixing that? With the price of gas and food skyrocketing, how could you vote to continue the tax cuts on the wealthy and tax the lower-middle class even more? How could people with young children vote for someone that doesn't make college affordable, or give them affordable healthcare? We don't even have kids yet and with the way the economy is, I wonder "how will we ever put our kids through college?" This country is just as bad now as it was during the Great Depression and if we don't at least move into the right direction soon, it's going to get really bad. Sure, it can't all be fixed in four years, but we can get on the right track, a more positive track, and begin the healing process.

I'm thankful day to day that I can afford groceries and gas and healthcare and that I work for a great employer that takes care of me. But there's so many people who aren't fortunate enough to have that and I don't think it's fair. We're Americans and we're supposed to care about each other and our country and stop being so damned selfish.

So that's my rant, I will now step down off of my soap box.

Obama-Biden-08 - let's go!