DON'T IGNORE GREATNESS BECAUSE YOU ARE STUCK IN THE PAST

I RESPECT THE YOUNG ADULT GENERATION WHO SUPPORTS BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama reaching out

Dear People of Conscience, I am forwarding this email that is below to you. I admit it is a plea to ask you to consider voting for Barack Obama. But I believe this is a moment in time that requires us to act with courage, outside the box and with the hope that WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. If you will go to the link you will see the speech that Barack delivered to us who were there in Nashua New Hampshire, January 8, 2008 put to music. Yes, I was there at Nashua South High School gym in New Hampshire. Here is the actual speech from that night: Barack Obama speaks New Hampshire Primary Night Here is a picture of me at the New Hampshire Primary Party night taken by the Reuters photographer and sent around the world: Caption to picture given online:

Barack Obama supporter Sandra Hammel (C), reacts to televised results at Obama's New Hampshire primary night rally in Nashua, New Hampshire, January 8, 2008.

REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)
Link to Picture

Irish TV interviewed me that night and asked me why I support Barack Obama. And knowing brevity was important I stated one reason: Other candidates say "I can do this and I can do that for you" but Barack Obama asks us to step up and get engaged in our government. He of course will lead, but we will no longer be dismissed and not listened to. He wants our participation."

Truth and integrity are critical to me. No more lies. For this reason, my personal choice is Barack Obama.

I respect your possible difference of opinion. But I also believe that we need to come together in this nation for the good of our families, our nation and our world. And I believe Barack has unique gifts to speak to the world on this very important need to heal.

Here is a page of Barack's stands on issues. Barack Obama on Issues

Thank you for your consideration.

Sandra Hammel

The orginal email that I forwarded:

Friends:

Tuesday’s vote and the few weeks that follow may literally change our country and the world forever, and I am doing everything I can to make a difference. Please help.

It has been said that someone like Barack only comes along once in a generation. There are many good people of all political persuasion who have tried to fundamentally change the direction of our country, but I don’t know of anyone who has lifted up the hopes and dreams of this country like Barack is doing.

This is our time.

We need a pragmatic visionary. A down to earth leader who knows what it is like to struggle through school on scholarships and loans and to survive.

We need a leader who understands the world and knows that if the world hates America less, we will be safer.

Barack Obama embodies the American dream and the greatness of our country. I could go on and on, but I will leave you with this. Please watch this: http://www.dipdive.com/

Please forward this email or one of your own to everyone in your address book, no matter what political persuasion or whether you think that person is interested in politics. This is beyond Democrat or Republican. This is beyond “politics.”

If nothing else, please watch this video. It is 4:44 minutes and may compel you to do whatever you can to change this country and the world: http://www.dipdive.com/

This is our time. This is our moment. Please believe, and seize the moment.

Jeffrey M. Padwa
Rhode Island Finance Co-Chair Obama for America

I would like to add this although I have said it surely on a previous post. In New Hampshire, the age differences of those of us that came together to work as volunteers for Barack Obama was wide. I am near Hillary Clinton's age. The two running the canvas were two young women who were 18 and 22 respectively. One who put off college to work on this campaign of Barack Obama and the other who put off graduate school for the same reason. They worked until 2:00 a.m. and started all over working at 6:00 a.m. every day. They were always soft spoken, thoroughly prepared and structured, diligent and committed to Barack Obama and their belief that Barack is the one to lead us into a transcending politics of our future.

I so respect the young people involved in Barack's campaign. I so love seeing the variety of ethnicity, age and regions that are brought together by this one candidate.

If you haven't heard Barack in person, you are missing the magical experience. If you haven't listened beyond the pundits, the accusations who are running against him or have never met him, then you have an inaccurate idea of who he is. You have to listen to Barack longer than 30 to 60 seconds. He actually is more experienced than you know. He is just as intelligent as Hillary if not more. He transcends your average and tired politician because he dares to say why can't we have more than what the government has so far been to us.

Here is just one of many bits of information on Barack's website:

Obama has appeal to Latinos

To the Editor

Those watching Univision, the Spanish-language network, at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, witnessed a historic event. This was the first time that a Spanish-language network sponsored a presidential debate.

Having observed Latino politics in Iowa for the last 14 years, this event represents the increasing potency of the Latino vote.

However, not all candidates are taking advantage of this opportunity, and some are philosophically against it. On the Democratic side, all the major candidates were present.

But Republicans did not have such a forum on Univision because only Sen. John McCain was willing to participate in a similar event. This signals a reversal from the strategy of George W. Bush when he was a candidate.

In 2000, I thought that George Bush had the most effective outreach to Latinos in Iowa. He had a full-time staff person devoted to Latino issues and building a Latino base in Iowa. That may not be enough for Latinos like myself to vote for him, but that effort does carry weight with many Latino voters.

Bush, after all, won 48 percent of the Latino vote when he last ran for governor in Texas. I am not sure any Republican candidate can even approach this sort of support in this election from Latinos nationwide.

This year, the most vigorous outreach to Latinos I have witnessed is that of Sen. Barack Obama. He has a full-time staff person, Joan Kato, devoted to building a Latino network of supporters. Sen. Obama's Latino advisory committee includes powerful voices in the Latino community in Iowa.

Although the total proportion of Latino voters in Iowa is still small, one cannot evade the fact that Latinos now outnumber farmers in Iowa. No one will be able to ignore the Latino vote in this election cycle, especially in key states, such as California, Florida, and Texas.

In the present election cycle, Latinos in Iowa may make a difference in a close race in some areas with high Latino populations (e.g., Muscatine, Denison, Storm Lake, Perry, Marshalltown) if voting registration drives are successful.

Although the presidential forum focused a lot on immigration issues, I support Sen. Obama because, in addition to having sensible plans on many Latino issues, he was against the Iraq War from the start.

Opposition to the Iraq war showed me that Sen. Obama's wisdom and courage was more potent than all of the experience of those seasoned politicians who voted for this costly and unwise human disaster that disproportionately affects the lives of the poor and the marginalized in this country and in Iraq.

Like many Latinos, I am interested in a candidate who makes an effort to reach out to Latinos. But that is just the first step. At the end of the race, I will vote for the candidate who addresses all the major aspects of my life as an American and as a citizen of an increasingly dangerous world. Sen. Obama is that candidate.

Hector Avalos
809 Wheeler Street, No. 6
Ames

Source: Mid Iowa News

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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Quote of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.