Obama

Two weeks from today we will have an election. It is going to be my second presidential election to see in this country. It wasn't very excited 4 years ago, although everybody I knew wanted to get rid of Bush.

He was elected somehow.

But this year is different. There is a big attention, excitement and interest in the election, especially on my side in our home.
I have been following the primaries since January. Somehow I grew interest in it and started watching the primaries, caucases and the debates. Although I liked Hillary Clinton I supported Obama. I guess I had a crash on him as my friend Catie says.

It was very nerve breaking actually to watch the Democratic primary season coming to an end. Who has the most delegates, who has the popular votes...etc. was the daily struggle. I even contributed Obama campaigned, blogged on his website. I am not eligible to vote since I am not a citizen in the US.
But I figured if am living , working, paying tax here, planning to have and raise a child here, I needed to get involved somehow, small or big, wanted to have an opinion on the issues, and on the other candidate as well.

Why I like Barack Obama? To make it short and precise; he is down to earth, one of us and he is intelligent.
He knows what this country needs, he knows what he needs to do in his presidency. He never says it is going to be easy, he never promised a rosy future, he always said he needed help from people, and he can't do it himself.
He talked about hope, which some people took it for granted. But isn't it the hope that makes us wake up in the morning when we don't have anything else.

Obama according to me represents change and he is a revolutionary figure in the days of darkness and hopelessness. These tough days will be overcome I am sure as they were in the future, I have no doubt about that. But I don't think we can do it with McCain and especially Palin on the ticket. Palin is a very very conservative and shallow figure. She has energized people that's for sure, she is female, young and new figure in the political arena.
I watched her very closely wanted know who she is and wanted to take a pride as a woman to see her in that position. But couldn't find anything.

She is accomplished no doubt about that.
The first thing I didn't like about her is her tone of voice and her mimics especially she makes with her mouth. Her very conservative thoughts about social issues turned me off very badly. I support gay and abortion rights or not. They should be my personal decisions if I needed to make a decision, a government shouldn't be involved on those decisions.
And the biggest moment I grew very apart from her was, (as if I grew very close to her) her very rookie, shallow answers and discussions in the interviews and the debate.
She can't answer any of the questions that have been asked to her and more important that matter to people, she can't keep it simple, she talks about some other stuff and goes deeper and deeper in the mud. It is unbelievable.

14 days from today we will have known who is going to be the president for 4 years. I can't wait to see Obama to have a victory, change the tone and the destiny of this country I live in which I consider home for now. Go Obama has been my mantra since last winter and I hope that it will be for a long time.