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• Monday, March 31, 2008 07:54 PM

  @ Clear Blue Sea

  Wow, thank you for such a warm, moving story.

  On behalf of Obama's supporters, please extend a "welcome aboard!" to you and yours!

  It's so refreshing to hear about real human beings rather than hearing talking heads speak of stock characters and poll data.

  A good friend of mine, her husband and their one-month old all turned out to the Penn State event, and she said it was magical and that people came from miles around.

  She also remarked that Obama's a brave man, due to the snipers she noticed everywhere and what she thought was the heightened security.

  It took me a long time to warm up to Obama (I'm coming from a hard-left, black, academic background, so my concern was that he wasn't boldly leftist enough), and one of the factors that pushed me over the edge was the recognition that he is, quite literally, putting his life on the line in a way the others are not.

  That fact alone persuaded me to give him the benefit of the doubt, that he really did have something to say, and a vision worth risking his life for. It's no small thing for his wife to have endorsed this, so I have to believe this is about more than just personal ambition.

  Thanks again for your perspective!

  —weeping for brunnhilde Read weeping for brunnhilde's other letters
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