Four Reasons To Elect Barack Obama (Conclusion)

Fundamentally, I can relate to Barack. He feels real…honest…human. Which means he’s imperfect too…I’m concerned, for example, about how he intends to pay for his somewhat extravagant economic plan, and even more seriously, if and how at the same time he intends to address our nation’s budget and debt crisis, with Social Security and Medicare about to break the bank and some hard choices for us ahead.

But while Barack may not be the perfect candidate, there is no such thing, and he is absolutely, far and above, the best candidate in the field.

I urge you to believe again…in yourself, in our nation, and in our future. Hope alone may not bring home the bacon, but you’ll never get any bacon without it.

Imagine interviewing for a job without hope. Imagine getting married without hope. Imagine raising a child without hope. Imagine making a sales call, or starting a business, without hope. Imagine sending three astronauts to the moon for the first time without hope. Imagine the progress of the civil rights movement without hope. Imagine defeating the Nazis and the spread of fascism without hope. Imagine the day after 9/11 without hope. Imagine going from the stock crash of 1929 to the Marshall Plan of 1947 – a journey from poverty to global rebuilder – without hope. Imagine constructing the national highway system without hope. Imagine inventing an airplane and flying it across the ocean without hope. Imagine waging a defiant and risky Revolutionary War against mighty King George III, and birthing a nation founded on untested ideas, without hope. All of these things are impossible without hope.

Yes, we’ve been disappointed before. Yes, we’ve been cheated before. Yes, we’ve been lied to before. And nobody can promise it won’t happen again. But whenever you are disappointed, cheated, or lied to, what gets you going again?

Hope!

Hope does.

Hope gets you going again.
That positive and uplifting faith that we have in ourselves and in our future no matter what the circumstances – what we call hope – that is the fuel that fires and sustains our nation’s engines of innovation, prosperity, equality, freedom, and fidelity to our principles.

After being disappointed, cheated, and lied to for eight long years by the Bush administration, Barack Obama is that long-sought flame of hope that lights us up again, that reminds us that we are a great people, with great potential, and that together we can rise again and shine the bright light of America far and wide. Yes, we can!

Vote for Barack Obama. Long live our Republic.