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Fired up and READY TO FINISH!
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Boy oh boy. How many hours have I blogged and commented to other blogs in the past 12 to 18 months.

Never had been much of one for politics. Somehow that changed around the 2006 election. Got initially involved primarily out of anger over what I saw in the three national branches of government. Then I saw a Charlie Rose one hour interview with a Senator named Barack Obama and that got me even more involved.

Now after all of the blogging, two and three hours a day most days, what really matters is only days away. I say to the other bloggers across the nation, we must ALL get out to vote on Tuesday if you haven't early voted already.

Am I relieved we're now this close to election day? Very relieved. I'm strongly supporting Senator Obama but whatever the outcome I have to get back to focusing on making a living. I've had a photography business for about 6 years and about a year ago started the process of opening a real estate office. I've grossly neglected both over the past few months. I suppose it won't do me a lot of good even if I've done my small part to help elect competent leadership in Washington if I allow my own business to fail :-)

I've enjoyed the campaign discourse along the way. Wow, how long ago does the Democratic primary seem now?

After hearing that first one hour interview of Senator Obama in my mind there was no doubt that he was the most capable politician in America to be the next president. Did I think he would make it? I'll have to admit I knew it would be tough.

To get past the very intelligent and capable Hillary Clinton who of course is married to probably one of the top 5 popular politicians of the 20 century. What a challenge that was. I initially expected Rudy Giuliani to be the Republican candidate and I think that might have been a tough challenge for Barack but Rudy self-destructed. I think Obama was the better candidate but let's keep it real. Obama has had to campaign with the handicap of a percentage of Americans who automatically won't vote for him because of the level of pigment in his skin and another percentage of Americans who automatically won't vote for him because of his name.

Obama vs McCain? I believe that this race is has perhaps the widest intelligence gap in modern presidential history. Obama appears to me to be one of the most intelligent people I've ever heard. Will the majority of Americans agree with that on election day? I'll know in a few days.


As my blogging for this campaign is coming to an end please allow me to leave you with a quote I wrote a few months back that really sums up kind of how important I feel this election is.

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"Without Washington, Jefferson and Franklin perhaps America would have never been born, without Lincoln perhaps America would have disintegrated, without Roosevelt perhaps America would have been conquered, without Obama perhaps the greatness of America would have been lost forever." -- by Steve Everett on April 20th, 2008, SteveEverettDailyQuotes.com.
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My fellow bloggers, lets change America (for the better) on November 4th.

And a few links for the road.
http://www.fightthesmears.com/
http://www.johnmccainrecord.com/
http://www.barackobama.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom
and one more. I registered and published this site myself
http://www.DailyDoseOfObamaVids.com/

and a couple of videos. Let's finish on November 4th, 2008 what kind of began in Iowa on January 3rd, 2008. That's it, I'm out of here.

IOWA VICTORY SPEECH. (13min)


AMERICAN STORIES, AMERICAN SOLUTIONS. (30min)


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Fired up and READY TO FINISH!

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