Greg

And to all (or was it just one?) of the kiddies that decided to come over and post – sorry – this isn’t a chat room.

AEM – rallies are always free. And no, I’m not going. It’s tax season and I can’t get away for the length of time it would take to drive to Arlington and back.

What has turned me toward Obama recently has been his consistent message of hope and what appears a sincere desire to unite the country against the divisions suggested by ideology, color, gender, etc. and Clinton’s willingness to play the political game by the same tired rules that produced the presidency we’ve lived under for seven years now (divide and conquer, identity politics, demolishing your opponent at the expense of energy and effort to build up your own platform and rhetoric).

Clinton is the candidate who made the move to make race a part of this campaign. She can apologize all she wants to, but this was done willfully and on her behalf.

I was very hopeful that we could at least maintain the high road during the nomination process within our own party. We will need to be united after the convention and this is not the way to create unification when a moderate Republican such as McCain is running.

I voted for Obama in Minnesota’s caucus because, to date, I see him running the more principled campaign. I see him appealing to our better nature. I think Senator Obama offers the promise of unification, a departure from past conflicts and their drain on our spirit as well as the opportunity to follow a candidate who believes that, given a choice, Americans will choose a positive vision of our country’s future over cynicism.