So the MSM is spinning its head off about Obamas white blue collar voter problem. We all know its not true, Obama does have a problem with white voters in Appalachia, but the rest of this argument is bunk. The other part of the MEM that ties into this, is that Obamas supporters are Latte drinking elitist. This is also a ridiculous argument, and I think I may be living proof of this. So my question to the MSM, and some of Hillary’s supporters is what kind of Obama supporter am I?

One of my Grandfathers was a respected republican judge from Ogden Utah. My other Grandfather was a Danish immigrant who came to the US shortly after the second world war. He eventually became a camera man and director in the adult movie industry. Needless to say my parents wedding reception was unusual, with my moms side of the family sitting around and trying to find something to drink that didn’t contain alcohol or caffeine, while my fathers side was naked in the hot tub.

I grew up in Los Angeles. I was diagnosed with severe dyslexia in kindergarten, but with tutoring was reading on a 12th grade reading level by the time I finished 1st grade. I attended a parochial catholic school until Junior High when I was thrown out. Then I went to a music academy for high school that was located in a very black area just out side of south central for high school, where I met the love of my life who is now my wife.  During this time I thought I was a hippie, smoked a lot of pot, and eventually ended up in juvenile hall and dropping out of high school.

At this point in my life there were decisions to make. I voted for Bill Clintons second term, quit doing drugs, and took a job as a private tutor for a few months before deciding to start my own business building and maintaining aquariums for people that had more money than they knew what to do with. I worked really hard, learned water chemistry, developed and manufactured some of my own technologies, and built a company from the ground up. I spent these days driving a pick up all around southern California, listening to interesting literary books on tap in the morning, and gangster rap in the afternoon. I could very easily be using drafting programs to figure out the tolerances of different thickness of Plexiglas, meeting a schmoozing with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, or up to my waist in a pond pulling algae and muck out of filter inlets. At one point my company was worth 2 million plus.

Then I voted for Gore, severed the tips of my fingers off while working, and delft with crushing economic problems that precipitated out of 911. Within a few years I was tired, broke, and burned out on the Hollywood scène. I sold what was left of my company and moved to Portland Oregon.

I took a job installing satellite dish’s, because regardless of what I had done in LA, I couldn’t find another job. I voted for Kerry, and started driving my pick up truck around the pacific northwest. I liked the work. Figuring out how to wire a house was interesting, and I didn’t mind working hard. Eventually I was tired of people making all the money from my work, so I decided to start my own company installing satellite.

So hear I am, a Obama supporter. A typical day for me starts at 6am with a quad shot of iced espresso (because I just don’t dig regular coffee), I get in My Toyota Highlander Hybrid (which I bought when the pick up through a head gasket), drive approximately 500 to 1000 miles a day (no I’m not kidding), and arrive at rural locations and either crawl under houses in the snow or mud, or am on top of roofs in 100 degree plus weather working. I take phone calls from my office and remotely direct 40+ employees and subcontractors from the road. My iPod bumps Willie Nelson in the morning, books by Haruki Muaramki while I’m installing, and Aimee Mann when I’m on the long road home. It’s not uncommon for me to shine a flash light on a poisonous spider while I’m crawling under a house, or to recognize the smell of dead birds that couldn’t find there way out of the attics. Its not uncommon for me to be out of the house working for 16+ hours a day.

So I’ve recorded in a previous blog my well reasoned arguments for supporting Obama. The point I’m trying to make here, is quite simply, which kind of voter am I? Am I blue Collar? Yes, at times. Am I a liberal hybrid driving coastal elitist? You bet. As far as I can tell, my life has lead me to be both. I’m a small business owner, and yes I do a crap load of manual labor. I’m a high school drop out, hybrid driving, straight lace haven’t had a beer in 12 year, latte drinking, pay check signing, environmentalist fly fishing, economically minded, cable pulling, democrat voting AMERICAN.

What the main stream media can’t figure out, that Obama did figure out, is that our politics needs to be changed, because the electorate is changing. More specifically our word and populous is changing. We all change through the course of our life time. While I recognize my life and case may be extreme, I don’t think it is unique for people of my generation. Obama figured out, that when the population is chopped and divided in the way the pundits and Rove seem to have decided it should be, it presents a false choice. They may as well try and chop and divide me as a person, or the time that makes up my day.

I am so ready for a president that will talk to me like I’m an adult, and attempt to actually solve the issues from both sides of the isle that affect my day.