This post will have no rhetoric. No preaching. Just an old-fashioned whoop of joy BEFORE the primaries today that we have a candidate like Barack Obama to vote for. It feels better than I can possibly describe. Close to mellowness and a rush all at the same time, and without either emotion canceling out the other. Maybe White House ’leadership’ had to get this bad before we could recognize pure vision and hope and talent and courage.

Let’s hear it for Obama…Hip hip hooray!!!

A postscript after voting: I will never forget the feeling of standing so alone in that voting booth…being myself…voting my heart’s desire….and seeing that one name all alone on the page. Barack Obama for President of the United States. It felt unreal and I got chills followed by tears that rolled down my face. It was the impact of that wonderful African name! Is this really possible in America? Can it really come true? Have times changed enough for crazies to not be threatened by the courage of this tall athletic figure who can speak from his core? That name rang out such courage! Never in my life have I had such an emotional feeling voting. Now I pray for his safety, his nomination and his victory.