obama photos

i finally uploaded my Obama pictures onto my computer and hopefully i can get my mcCain ones up soon.

yessss

OHIO and PENNSYLVANIA! excellent! This is such an exciting night and it is so great to see that our country has for the most part come far enough to possibly see a black president. :)

Red Pom Poms and Toby Keith

Today I attended the John McCain rally with Kiah, and Katie Lewis. We arrived at the rally at seven o'clock and were only about the thirtieth or fortieth people in line so we knew we would be guaranteed good seats. I really wanted to go so that no matter what I could say that I had seen the next president of the United States. I had three Obama buttons in my sweatshirt that I had planned on wearing but not wanting to have any confrontation that is where they stayed. They let us in at 8:30 out of the drizzling rain and we found our spots at the front by the stage! Right next to it! I thought we had been close at the Obama rally when we were twenty feet away but it was nothing in comparison to the five feet we were from the stage today! So after five hours of waiting and being handed red pom poms, listening to way too much country music and seeing my fair share of NObama shirts it was almost time for him to arrive. A man that was volunteering came over to us and asked if we were high school students and we replied that we were, he asked if there was a large Obama following at our high school and we said yes at told him that we were Obama supporters, then he asked if we could vote and we said no and he said good. It was really funny and I could definitely sense the uncertainty of McCain becoming president. When McCain's plane pulled up and him, Cindy, his mother, and Libermann stepped out there was pandemonium.I can honestly say that the rally for McCain was much more enthusiastic and crazy than the Obama rally. I was actually very pleased to see that in his speech John McCain did not speak negatively of Obama but rather focused on himself and how much he needed everyone to vote today and the fight he would put up for America. He only spoke for about ten minutes which was really disappointing after waiting five hours but I'm glad we went. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me to be in the presence of two presidential candidates and who knows when the next time a presidential candidate should come to Grand Junction. Unfortunately, we walked away right before he came to shake our hands, to try and beat traffic. Now im going to sit back and watch the election results come in on this historic day!

McCain

I'm going to see McCain tomorrow! I don't agree with him at all on his policies but I think this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and although I was much more enthusiastic to see Obama, I am excited to see him tomorrow! I have RSVP'd and I will quietly rep Obama with my buttons. Yay for Grand Junction having some importance in this election!

Election Day!

Election Day is in five days! With all the news media being focused on the campaign world news has really taken a back seat. In fact today was one of the first days in a while were I have heard world news on the tv. 48 people were killed in India after consecutive blasts from where they are still trying to determine. It's amazing how little we focus on anything else during general election. I can't wait for this election to be over, and for Americans to start focusing on solving issues rather than just talk about them. 5 DAYS

Scarrryyy Stuff

The men charged with plotting to kill Obama, was a scary story to read today. I knew this would be an issue but it's so sad to think that our country is still a long way from the racist past we've had. Check out the whole story on CNN, I'm technology challenged and every time I try to link things on here it doesn't work so I'm just telling you to check it out. :(

Dirty with a capital D

I am so sick of the negative campaigning from both sides, but it seems in these last three weeks before election day, John McCain's campaign and the Republican Committee have really been pulling out all the stops. Not only have there been an abundance of new negative ads circulating through the media, but now these nasty robo calls, and we received a brochure yesterday that made me a little sick. I have to laugh at John McCain's comment in the last debate about Obama having spent the most money on negative campaigning in history.....hmmmm CNN may want to fact check that one. Anyway the brochure we received from the Colorado Republican Committee was appalling. It was all about William Ayers and his "close" friendship with Barack Obama. It included quotes from Ayers about not regretting setting the bombs, next to a picture of Obama. It was absolutely ridiculous and I would hope that anyone who sees that would have the common sense to see the absurdity and the nasty game the republican committee puts on during elections, unfortunately there are still people ignorant enough to look at that and believe every word.....

I'm so incredibly ready for this election to be over. It has been such a nasty one and these last efforts by the Republicans are really putting it over the edge for me.