Inspirational WaPo story: How WV Dems Came to Terms with Obama's Rise

[Bucky]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/22/ST2008102201506.html

Read the whole thing. It will put a smile on your face. It will show you a little bit of what the Obama magic is all about.

How W.Va. Democrats Came to Terms with Obama's Rise

The predominately elderly, white organizers who have run the county Democratic Party here for a generation were uneasy about integrating their operation with the Democratic presidential campaign, which was filled with new, unknown faces, many of them minorities.

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"We got him . He was nominated. We have to accept it."

She leaned forward, earnestly. "We have to accept it."

FAST-FORWARD FIVE MONTHS to October, and it feels like five decades have passed.

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Acker dates the beginning of the two camps' integration to July 24, the opening of the Italian Festival on the waterfront. She was busy setting up the Democratic Party booth when some of the Obama newbies approached her and offered their help passing out local politicians' fliers and registering voters.

"I didn't know them from a load of coal," she remembers, "But they knew what they were doing" with their forms, their talk of health care and their relentlessness. "Just talking to them, I saw what nice people they were."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/22/ST2008102201506.html

[Pirate Smile]

1. You can watch a little video where they talk to Acker and the Obama guy.

It is interesting. I love progress. :)