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One Of Us: President Barack Obama
Sep. 5th, 2012 01:10 pmPresident Barack Obama: One of Us.
Michelle Obama gives a brilliant and moving speech at the Democratic National Convention (full text).
"Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys…Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house…and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both.
"And the truth is, I loved the life we had built for our girls…I deeply loved the man I had built that life with…and I didn’t want that to change if he became President.
"I loved Barack just the way he was.
"You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate…to me, he was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door…he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he’d found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.
"But when Barack started telling me about his family – that’s when I knew I had found a kindred spirit, someone whose values and upbringing were so much like mine.
"You see, Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves. (Read the rest)."
She goes on to talk about their combined student loan payments, which were higher than the mortgage on their house. And how being president doesn't change a man, but reveals who he is.
And I would say: he's one of us.
He cares about us, has already reduced student loan payments and protected students from rapacious loan practices. He's supported equal pay for women because he has two daughters and a wife he respects.
The first move he made when he stepped into office was close Guantanamo Bay--it's gotten complicated, but the fact that he did that first tells you who he is.
He's ended Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
He's passed universal health care, even though it cost him.
He gave immigrant kids who've lived here their whole lives citizenship.
This is the man to vote for. Someone who's one of Us.
Michelle Obama gives a brilliant and moving speech at the Democratic National Convention (full text).
"Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys…Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house…and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both.
"And the truth is, I loved the life we had built for our girls…I deeply loved the man I had built that life with…and I didn’t want that to change if he became President.
"I loved Barack just the way he was.
"You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate…to me, he was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger side door…he was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he’d found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was half a size too small.
"But when Barack started telling me about his family – that’s when I knew I had found a kindred spirit, someone whose values and upbringing were so much like mine.
"You see, Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves. (Read the rest)."
She goes on to talk about their combined student loan payments, which were higher than the mortgage on their house. And how being president doesn't change a man, but reveals who he is.
And I would say: he's one of us.
He cares about us, has already reduced student loan payments and protected students from rapacious loan practices. He's supported equal pay for women because he has two daughters and a wife he respects.
The first move he made when he stepped into office was close Guantanamo Bay--it's gotten complicated, but the fact that he did that first tells you who he is.
He's ended Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
He's passed universal health care, even though it cost him.
He gave immigrant kids who've lived here their whole lives citizenship.
This is the man to vote for. Someone who's one of Us.
