Reply #13: Good job of pulling all these anecdotes together.

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I fit the demographic that ought to be for Sen. Clinton. She is my senator and I was very pleased and excited to vote for her on Daniel P. Moynihan's recommendation when she ran to represent NY in the Senate. When her campaign contacted me today and asked me for feedback I told them that had she lost me by the incompetency of her campaign. I did not vote for her in the primary in NY because she had been unresponsive to my pleas not to fund, enable, or otherwise encourage the war against Iraq and especially, ESPECIALLY not enable opening a war on another front, namely, Iran. She voted for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment and that's where she lost me for good. Barak Obama represents hope. He is smart, omigod smart, and I find him inspiring. People are not signing up to vote in record numbers for the same-o-same-o, if you know what I mean. I was raised by bigots and rejected that. For those of you who don't know what the consequences are of "going against your raisin'" in the South, the short answer is alienation. I do not regret being estranged from people who hate, although it is very uncomfortable to be unwelcome within your own blood family. It is time for America to live up to the ideals we represent to the rest of the world. I want Barak Obama to speak for me on the world stage. I want us to elect him because he is the smartest, best communicator, most compassionate problem solver we have had the chance to vote for, maybe ever. K&R!