There are all the substantial reasons. The fact that he supports my family's rights. His understanding that we must fix health care system and stop global warming, and has good proposals to do so. His legislative experience that is longer and more substantial than Hillary Clinton's, and Kennedy's, and Clinton's, and Carter's, and Bush II's, and many others before they were president. His judgment in opposing the war when it was not popular to do so. On these and many other issues he has shown experience, judgment andgood ideas.
But you know, there are many men and women with experience and judgment and good ideas. But there are few, oh so very few, who can inspire a nation to transform itself.
There is only so much that a president can do with experience and judgment and good ideas. But add inspiration to greater heights to that and we can all change the world.
I have never felt this way about any candidate in my nearly half century of life. Never.
Never have I seen a man or woman able to inspire an 84 year old Mormon grandmother in Utah, a single mother in public housing, a 48 year old white biotech executive, the Latina community organizer, an 80 year old Korean immigrant, the 55 year old African-American minister, and the middle-class Republican music teacher and his wife and so many others of so many stripes, never have I seen such a person able to not only inspire, but to persuade and to move to action.
These are my mother-in-law, my neighbor, me, a friend, the man I met on the street, a local leader, my close friends.
Never before in my life.
He has made me remember again why I am proud of this nation, what it means to be American. He has made this middle-aged cynic weep.
If we nominate and elect this man, we will have changed a nation and help it rise to the heights that is it's promise. If we don't, we will have missed a great opportunity. The time is now.
"In the unlikely story that is America, there is nothing false about HOPE"
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