(which was the one that had impressed me the most - and said to give the requisite Kerry content.) The diary it is set in is awesome and unbelievable.
short quote:
" I am a supporter of Obama because I believe he is the right person to lead the country at this time. He offers a rare opportunity for the country and the world to start over, and to do better. It is a deep sadness to me that many of my feminist white women friends cannot see him. Cannot see what he carries in his being. Cannot hear the fresh choices toward Movement he offers. That they can believe that millions of Americans –black, white, yellow, red and brown - choose Obama over Clinton only because he is a man, and black, feels tragic to me.
When I have supported white people, men and women, it was because I thought them the best possible people to do whatever the job required. Nothing else would have occurred to me. If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is. We look at him, as we looked at them, and are glad to be of our species. He is the change America has been trying desperately and for centuries to hide, ignore, kill. The change America must have if we are to convince the rest of the world that we care about people other than our (white) selves."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/29/124042/507/409/486744I posted link to it in the Obama group and here as well as in GD-P:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5307745&mesg_id=5307745 
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