Ted Sorensen put me in the Obama camp.

[Stinky The Clown]

I came to the Obama camp quite late. Just a few weeks ago. Prior to that, I was in my own camp of one ..... not one bit happy about the primaries or our candidates. Today, with Obama clearly winning, it is over. But I am caused again to reflect on why I chose to support him.

On the day Ted Kennedy was hospitalized after a seizure, all the media was going on as if he'd died. One of the people interviewed that day (by phone) was long, long, long time Kennedy family friend, confidante, insider, and loyalist, Ted Sorensen.

Ted was a member of JFK's White House team. He explained why the Kennedy family had endorsed Obama. In (a perhaps unfair) summary, he saw Obama as a culmination of a dream of JFK's and RFK's and of course, of Ted Kennedy's - a black man as president.

I'd heard the family's initial; endorsement event. That didn't quite reach me.

But Ted Sorensen, in his incredibly upbeat way on a day that was as maudlin as any I can imagine, moved me.

A black man as president.

There is hope for us yet.

[Tinksrival]

1. As a white woman,

raised by racist, closed minded, fearful people from the Southside of Chicago........

I AGREE!

[Window]

2. ..

:thumbsup: