Charles meets Barack.
I normally am not one for posting Obama campaign videos on this blog, but this simply moved me beyond anything I can express:
Remember our elders on Election Day. This is for them, too.
Remember our elders on Election Day. This is for them, too.
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It's a great clip. Thanks for putting it up here.
October 28, 2008 11:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
really moving. thanks for taking the time to post it.
October 29, 2008 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great clip, Scientific. Thanks.
October 29, 2008 1:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
If that doesn't bring a tear ...
October 29, 2008 6:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Loved it. Thanks for the post!
October 29, 2008 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, Sci. Yet another moment from this campaign that made me cry.
October 29, 2008 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen. I can't fully put into words how much this makes me think of my great-grandfather, my "Papa", who fled Mississippi at 15 because he was about to be lynched. He passed in 1995, but oh...were he to see this.
November 4, people.
October 29, 2008 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
The change that is going to sweep the globe if Obama is elected will be substantial.
No matter how our reputation has fallen around the world these past 8 years, the world still looks to us for leadership on matters of civil rights and equality.
The symbolic nature of an Obama presidency is not lost upon the world and it certainly isn't lost on folks like Charles who probably never believed this could happen in his lifetime.
October 29, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scientific, you and Charles brought tears to my eyes.
October 29, 2008 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, Scientific. Charles is what I call a real America. No hate, no slime, just a real person helping out with something he believes in.
October 29, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice. I'm sticking with the values my grandmother taught me: play nice, and share! What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?
October 29, 2008 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn, I think I have something in my eye.
Thanks for the uplift, Scientific.
Be well.
October 29, 2008 5:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Between this clip of Charles, and the photos that included one of Obama, on automatic pilot, cleaning up an ice cream spill, I am gratefully reminded of the inherent goodness in people. Thank you.
October 29, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a beautiful testimonial. Very moving. Reminded me of my dad and all the men in his generation who struggled and came home to a country that would not allow them to enter front doors and drink out of water fountains but they ignored that ignorance and fought for America anyway.
I teared up with Charles said ..people like me are dying off, all of them...you know he was thinking of his wife when he said it. Sad.
Yet at the same time, he has hope for all the future generations.
Beautiful, Scientific...thanks for sharing.
October 29, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am typing through my tears. Our very souls are crying out and we will not be denied our hope. Too many of us for the old order to prevail. These fools who have been running things are done and will remembered as a failure. Our grandchildren will read about this era and be thankful for Charles and the rest of us who stood up and said, "enough".
October 29, 2008 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for posting this.
October 29, 2008 10:40 PM | Reply | Permalink