At least I really hope that with my third donation to Barack Obama, this one for $25, I can win a seat at the convention...which is just slightly better than winning dinner with Barack Obama (which I tried but failed at a few months ago). I've been watching closely and reading all the FISA diaries and I'm amazed and a little jealous. My priorities in life are so much closer to the bottom of Maslow's scale that I can't afford to be distracted about FISA when what I'm truly worried about is if my credit card company is going to simultaneously raise the APR on my "fixed rate" credit card while lowering the limit.
I don't know if the reports of slow fund raising are true but it scares me enough to get off my wallet and do whatever I can (which obviously isn't much). I simply cannot afford another 8 years of Republican rule (or secret shadowy powers-that-be rule). I sometimes feel like we are becoming like the miners of South Africa who could never work themselves free because they never got paid enough to pay off the landlord who was also the boss. I really hope that all the talk about not giving another dime to Obama because of FISA does not come to pass. I have only been around here a few months, but ya'll didn't strike me as the kind of folks who couldn't see the forest for the trees. I hope I'm right.
I know this is short and might not qualify as a "real" diary but I just want to remind people that the neediest citizens in this country, people like my elderly next door neighbor, her brother and my grandparents will suffer the most if Obama is not elected. I'm going to do whatever I can to be able to call him President Obama in a few months... are you?