Reply #263: Thank you for this thoughtful response, Melinda. Most of us certainly

[K Gardner]

feel your pain and have been there, through the tears and anger, already.

I'm going through fresh anguish now because I'm reading what Obama went through as a child/teen/young adult (in his first book), and he is talking about many of the things that are going on in this campaign and speaking in heartwrenching, soulful terms about what it feels like to be the object of this. He has been called names that are untypeable to me. I cannot imagine the inner pain this causes him.. yet he says nothing.

We need this man.. this country needs Barack Obama.