About

I never was one to go along with the popular choice. I was always the person who thought and researched things for myself. That applies to politics as much if not more so than any other thing in my life. I cast my vote towards Obama for many, many, many reasons. I enjoyed listening to him speak, he gets your attention that’s for sure. I liked the majority of his policies that he presented, I felt that he could relate to my generation and the ideals that we have. I liked that he was going to be the first leader of this country to crack the race boundary, as we are a nation of many races you know. I liked his top notch education and his marks. I saw the real American dream in him and his accomplishments and goals reached. I felt as though he knows what the real value of a dollar is, coming from a poverty past. I felt he was a honest and loving family man, which keeps him very humble and honest at the end of the day when he looks into his daughters eyes. I liked the fact he was open about his experimentation with drugs and is a admitted cigarette smoker from time to time as I am also. Most of all, what I see in him is wisdom. You can’t undervalue wisdom.
I was told early in the campaign from friends and family that I was wasting my vote on a black man that had no chance in hell of winning the presidency. Living in the southeast of the united states it has been very hard to voice my opinion to others around me. There are still many forms of racism here. There are many forms of hatred still towards anyone different. Fortunately I was not raised that way. I have lived in upstate New York and in Northeastern Ohio which I think influenced me to see past skin color, general titles and the stigma of someone different than myself. I thank my parents for that.
But decisive factor for my choosing Obama was the amount of hate mail and rhetoric and lies I received from the Republican Party and its followers. Every day for almost a year all I got was negative attacks on a man that did not deserve it. It became so bad that I actually lost some friends over this. It quickly became apparent that these same people would say or believe anything, even though many of them did not believe in what they were sending anyway!
I am grateful for living in a country that freedom to think for myself is a right. My vote was of my own. Of my relentless research and thousands of hours of reading and mostly the use of my god given common sense. I made my choice, and I am happy with it.