This is about US - 'Divided we fall, United we stand'

[GetTheRightVote]

In the year 2000, my believe system dead a slow and horrible death, Al Gore was President but never lived in the White House and I no longer called the man in the White House my President, he was their President never mine. It was the same in 2004 when they stole this election as well ( volunteer in Ohio for recount - that was not fun either ) and what little was left of my hope in politics was destroyed one uncounted vote at a time.

I have waited 8 long heart strickened years afraid of the next election the way I never thought I could be because there was no spark left to rekindle, no hope or faith in this system to bring forth. I had turned my head away from the political system in disbelief that it could ever really mean anything to me or to my life, my family's life accept disappointment or more distraught. There was no light at the end of our tunnel, these horrible years had shut it out, snuffed it out.

Then I heard Hillary was running, wow, at least I could not vote for one of my own, a woman though I knew she was still a part of the existing political machine. She was the least of two evils for me as a voter and perhaps a woman being in office would make some small difference but then it happened. A voice called from without yet it reached for me, pulling me closer to itself.

That voice gave a speech that day and it gave me what I had been looking for but no longer believed existed in the world, within this nation today. That voice spoke to me about ordinary, daily things, it spoke of bills and budgets, it spoke to me of the importance of family and being able to afford the cost of my kid's college education, of house payments, of rent payments, car payments and insurance, health care costs, all of these ordinary items that I deal with everyday as if it had reached into my purse and read my list for the month, it spoke of living on a budget and trying to stay within it. I could have spoken the same speech almost word for word so that voice became my voice that day. I wait to hear it more and more as time goes by because it speaks for me now as well as anyone else who can hear the message that comes from within it.

I am an ordinary citizen who believes now that this is what makes me special. I am one ordinary member of a much larger group of ordinary people with whom I share a home. I am one ordinary member who shares the same worries and problems with many other members of my group. There is something special in being ordinary in that it makes me understand and better able to connect with these other members of my group and I believe that Obama is a part of this group. I believe he feels he is one of us who has lived the American dream which is shared by all of us ordinary people. It is the ordinary people of this nation that our forefathers spoke of and believed in. So when this voice speaks to me as a voice equal to my own I feel empowered and I feel a part of the bigger picture which makes up the land scape of this land I love so much. This is the reason I why I believe in this voice, Obama's voice.

He speaks of a improved nation which is built for all of us, he speaks of rebuilding her to her former beauty, her former strength, her former greatest and back into a nation I can be pride of once again. His words inspire me and they give to me the strength to believe again, to hope again and to knowledge again that I might just be wrong in not believing in a brighter tomorrow for all of us though not as sheep lead by a master but as a people on a share journey to a better land and future that we will build together.

I am ready to go to work for this type of leader !