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I Have a Gut
By halanscott | May 9, 2008
And it’s pissing me off.
Since I switched to supporting Mister Obama, I began reading “Dreams from My Father,” in an effort to get to know his background. I’ve already read “The Audacity of Hope,” when it first came out. I loved it, it’s what inspired my early support for him.
I have a strange relationship with Obama. I watched his rise through the U.S. Senate primaries in Illinois in 2004. I didn’t support him in the primaries, but I do distinctly remember watching his acceptance speech the night he became the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee. He talked of bringing the state together, the north and the south, and yes, I was inspired. Because of this early awareness of Obama, before the rest of the country took note, I feel like I somehow have more of a understanding of where he came from. He’s real to me, not Presidential. I’ve only ever known Hillary Clinton in a grand scale, the White House or U.S. Senate defiantly pictured in the background. But it’s different with Obama.
How did I get this gut?
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