Today’s Obama rally in the Meadowlands included:
- basketball and Senate hero, Bill Bradley
- one of our time’s finest artists, Robert De Niro
- the energetic Senator Ted Kennedy
- the trill of seeing Barack Obama’s stump speech in live.
But the rally was about what really matters: the American citizen. Thousands who found time on short notice to meet in the swamps of Jersey, a place with no mass transit and lots of construction that limited the parking.
There was:
- the late-20’s something male of Indian heritage who told me he had never been to political event.
- the female Brooklyn physician who told me she was from Nicaragua, that she was an intern in that country in the 1980’s. One of her stories gave me a glimpse of life in that nation in revolutionary times.
- the older African American woman who told me her community group ran a bus from East Orange.
- the crowd of old, young, male, female, mothers and fathers who brought their kids, people of every shade and ethnicity.
I am a white male about to celebrate my 30th anniversary with my African American wife. We have two wonderful adult children. I have worked in very diverse environments. But I have never been in a more diverse crowd. A crowd that is living the dream that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King spoke about. And a crowd that was at its most electric when Barack Obama spoke about this campaign being about us and our future.
This is about us, our nation, our world, our children, our future. That is why I will be doing GOTV work tomorrow morning, right after I vote for the next president of the United States, Barack Obama.