Great work on your blog. I’m from Pennsylvania. I live in Philadelphia, but I just toured northeastern Pennsylvania during my spring break (for a little vacation fun) and was appalled at how open people often were about their racist views. I went to college in Easton, right on the border of the Philadelphia metro area and “Pennsyltucky” (alright – probably the first major town inside the “Pennsyltucky” T as you travel north from Philadelphia), so I was somewhat familiar with how things could be, but I was stunned by how bad it got the further north or west we went.

I really hope we do better when the bell rings, because I myself am a big Obama supporter and I hate the thought that the state where I live being alarmingly racist. I guess I’m hoping that Philadelphia and its surrounding counties, with their more sophisticated (i.e., liberal) populations, can overwhelm the rest of the state. I’ll try to do some volunteer work for Senator Obama, but mostly I’m crossing my fingers.

His campaign strategy has been impeccable. His gentlemanly manner of stopping to help up his opponent when she is down and nearly out, brings a previously untapped civility into the political process.

Unfortunately, his opponent does not reciprocate. The fact of the matter is, she can not win in a fair fight and rather than offering plans to help America get back on track she has chosen to resort to fear mongering and casting aspersions and just plain old outright attacking and discrediting Barack Obama and the plans he is putting forth. (No matter, the Obama for President movement is a movement which will not be stopped, not by Hillary Clinton and not By John McCain.) She has resorted to going totally negative against Obama in the few days just prior to elections. The American people want a new kind of politics, and they are ready for a change!

She said originally the campaign should not be about gender or race, but with the help of her former President husband, they have made this election process about nothing more, not to exclude the media which helps spread every poisonous Clinton message. Bill Clinton told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that women should vote for Hillary and blacks should vote for Obama.

I am sure that had something to do with math. Nevertheless, he said it would be a good thing. But thank goodness, non of their negative, divisive and reactionary tactics are working and the backlash has even been detrimental to the Clinton campaign.

Hillary talks about being a fighter and being tough, but will resort to and has resorted to crying or feigning crying to get votes, playing the poor me victim of “the media picks on me and gives Barack a free ride.” She will say and do anything to get elected. She has spoken publicly of Barack in a non-Senatorial manner in Ohio, regarding fliers from the Obama campaign about NAFTA and her Insurance plan, challenging him angrily to come to Ohio for a debate, which was already scheduled for a few days later….with her comments: ”Shame on you, Barack Obama!”.

America needs him! America wants him! America is inspired by him, despite notions by Hillary Clinton that his speeches of hope and inspiration are non-substantive, while her speeches of personal attack and aspersions cast are the voice of experience. Does America really need four more years of shady politics?

I think not, and Obama offers a fundamentally different type of leadership. America does not want to relinquish him and let him go quietly back into his past life. They have rallied to his support in record numbers, the largest turnouts and financial contributions in the history of American politics.

Obama has often reminded America of his opposition to the Iraq war from the beginning, his willingness to stand in opposition to the war even while making an earnest bid to get elected to the U. S. Senate, which by the way was successful and his judgment to have made the right decision pertaining to that war despite the fear mongering of George W. Bush, when most other politicians were afraid to resist and gave into to his reckless and misguided war with Iraq.

John C. Connally