I am a person of liberal leanings. But I find in myself almost Republican feelings since my personal experiences with Government have been invasive and damaging, not to mention incompetent. I feel strongly we need less Government not more,, but the Government we have needs to be more responsible. The last few years it's been hard not to despair over the political climate in this country and the damage being done to our country and the world by this irresponsible Federal Administration.

Last Spring I read The Audacity of Hope. It inspired and excited me. Barack Obama was able to articulate so much of what I also see as wrong in our country but instead of just telling me about it, he spoke about solutions, working out the difficult paths to bringing our country back to center. He didn't write about easy answers, he wrote about hard solutions. Real solutions, not imagination. We didn't get here overnight, we're not going to get out of it overnight.

It was realistic, not idealistic. It was about working together and not expecting the government to do it all for us. After all we are the government.

I decided at that point I was going to support this guy for President. We started giving compaign contributions at the end of last year. In the last few weeks as the Democratic primary moved to our area, we had a chance to do more with David more involved than I because he just loves data and I have Jack, Wendy, a household, etc.

But it was fun to have a area leadership meeting here at the house on Saturday morning before they headed off to the staging ground. Then they lost their staging ground for Sunday, so we offered the house.

There were about 40 people here Sunday at noon gathering to go out and round up new voter registrations. It was fun. We had a big green sign on the door that said O(shamrock)Bama. This is a very Irish Catholic neighborhood. The organizers also camped here on our dining room table borrowing our wireless internet, making cell phone calls to volunteers and collected the finished forms at the end of the day from the volunteers.

I'll admit I wasn't here for most of it. I left for my sisters about the time they sent the volunteers out on their way, but not before helping print out directions to some of the locations they were going and giving them the details on our network.

It feels good to help out. Especially in what is becoming a very critical area for Obama, this section of the city doesn't really fit the usual demographic of Obama supporters, but it seems that there is more support out there than we expected.

Yes we can!