I got your back Barack! (Awesome Post)

[kpete]

kpete: this poster humbled me, amazing story-I only posted a snippet - from Dkos)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/22/13830/4343/811/540243

I got your back Barack!
by Deoliver47
Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 10:27:43 AM PDT

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I don’t play games. Games are for children. I’m not in a tournament. Tournaments are for athletes and Knights of the Roundtable in fairy tales. I’m in a war – and this is just one battle, one skirmish in a war that has gone on since Christopher Columbus got lost on his way to despoil India. A war that I will not see the end of. A war that requires a patience that transcends death. A war that may determine if any human beings remain alive to carry on the struggle on this planet when I am turned to dust.

But I know my role in that war. I’m an aging foot soldier. I’m a protective grandmother, a woman, a black woman. I don’t forget, and I don’t forgive, but I do my duty and I stand as one among thousands. I say proudly, "Barack. Young man. I got your back." I will fight all and any who have falsely claimed to be a part of this struggle, but turned tail at the sight of the first puff of smoke. I will denounce them as cowards.

So bring it on. But before you do – you tell me what qualifies you to even open your mouth. Give me your name rank and serial number in this war and show me the battles you’ve fought, the scars you’ve earned, tell me the names of your dead, your wounded, those friends and family you have in prison – and just maybe I will listen to you. Or just simply state that you sent a check this week to Barack Obama, and are reporting for duty.

If not – don’t bother to comment. Move on to another diary of masturbation.

I ain’t got no time to waste on you. We got a battle to win.

I’m calling on the troops who got his back.

Who is with me?

much more here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/22/13830/4343/811/540243

[babylonsister]

1. "We got a battle to win." Amen, Sista', that's a fact! nt

[ben_meyers]

2. Blind, unquestioning support and faith

Just like Pelosi and Reid a few years ago. B.S., nobody deserves it, they all need to be questioned and held accountable. Oh, he has to run to the middle to win the GE, but we know (wink, wink) what he really means. You know, like Clinton and welfare reform, he'll fix it first thing after the election.

[LiberalAndProud]

6. Please read the entire diary.

Your comment betrays the fact that you did not.

[ben_meyers]

8. No, I read the entire thing

and stand by my comment. I'm just reducing what she said to fewer words.

[corkhead]

9. Thanks for posting, Important to READ ENTIRE DIARY.

edited to remove a cool chart I saw in diary comments that I was unable to format in a readable manner.

[az chela]

3. I'M with you

I am also a grandmother and an older white lady and I have had Obama's back since I first heard him.We NEED CHANGE,so bring it on.

[roguevalley]

5. I was at the store yesterday moaning about food prices on a fixed

income when a friend who had been my dad's therapist after his strokes came by and we chatted. this is the best part. She had been Obama's babysitter when he was seven. His mom was in college getting her degree and my friend was babysitting her son. I didn't have much time to chat, but I am going to see her this weekend where a float is being built for the dems for the fourth of July parade and I will dig for more details. It explains her very early and very cheery support for Barack's candidacy. :)

Ah, a touch of history, no matter how small. :)

[babylonsister]

7. How fun! Please bring us back the poop on your friend's experience!

Not even six degrees of separation!

[roguevalley]

11. I know. Alaska is the place for oddities like this. I will. :)

[Life Long Dem]

4. No other place I'd be but watching his back

Some don't see the overall goal in this battle but prefer to wage war on every little hill.

[NOLALady]

10. Kick

:kick:

[Hekate]

12. The strength of righteousness and righteous wrath is in her.

:patriot:

Hekate