and she proudly supports Obama.
I love your diary. I couldn't agree more.
Mine is 65 and caucused for Obama in MN without witnessing any coercion or harassment on any side.
Yes, my whole family caucused in Texas for Obama. It was a little confusing at first, but everyone pulled together in their respective communities. I love it when I see diaries about people arguing how Texas was illegal and baloney because...sppt...they heard it on a blog. I'm like, whatever, you weren't there.
My whole family (except for me) hates Obama's guts.
Then, you've got some work to do! :) Who do you think got my whole family to vote for Obama? Half of them wouldn't have even gotten off their lazy butts to vote if I hadn't pushed them. It took a few emails to convince some others in my family, but they eventually came around.
i'm working on my sister to support Obama. She's undecided between Obama and McCain. (She votes with her pocketbook or so she thinks).
My mom was on the fence until Bill made that Jesse Jackson crack. Dad was on board after Edwards dropped out. My wife and I jumped aboard after Feingold dropped out. Our cat was smart enough to support Obama from the get go.
Breaking: Obamabots hate blind people.
My family's all over the place and totally defying the media sterotypes of each groups suppoters. My Dad's has spend the last 40 years working on Wall Street, yet he's an Edwards guy. My mother likes OBama, even though as an older white woman, she should be in Hillary's corner. I like CLinton, even though I'm a higly educated professional white male in the upper income brackets.
Same with my 63 year old dad and 61 year old mom. Feminists the both of them.
You think that's bad, I wonder how much gas prices were affected by war in the Middle East. Y'know: AUMF. Hillary: yay!
Exactly. Obama voted for the Energy Bill because it bore legistlation for the deveopment and use of enthanol as an alternativ fuel. Something like 40% of the corn used to produce ethanol is produced in Illinois. Essentially, he voted in the interest of the state he was elected to represent as a senator.
What goes entirely unheralded around these parts is that Obama proposed a number of amendments to the 2005 Energy Act (along w/ HRC) in an attempt to clean the thing up.
Senators are rarely faced with a morally unambiguous vote. Almost every piece of legislation often has both good and bad in it. On the whole, they are often difficult decisions.
That said, the AUMF should have been a no-brainer. HRC goofed that one BADLY, and has righly suffered the consequences for it.
Ethanol is a pretty bad idea...
Actually, I agree. Enthanol certainly isn't the best idea, but in 2005 it was still largely considered a stop-gap measure worth exploring to reduce reliance on foriegn oil.
My mom is 62 and Hillary Clinton's demographic fit. She gave her campaign $1000 in December.
Last week (she lives in Portland) she mailed in her vote for Obama.
Did Obama win her or Clinton lose her?
Her words: "She's not representing the feminism I fought 25 years for-- he's representing the civil rights we (my father and her) nearly died for."
My mom is and always has been one of the smartest and most perceptive people I've ever known.
Please.
Obama does have a page for women on his web site. Check it out and be sure to watch the video: http://women.barackobama.com/page/conten t/WFOhome
Also, one of the top links on Obama's home page is 'Help Disaster Victims' which I think is just remarkable. Check that out too: http://www.redcross.org/
I am 65... a mom and a grandmother. And I proudly support Obama. And have after Edwards dropped out.
I went to the Hillary breakout session in Chicago and came away impressed with her knowledge and grasp of the issues. But that wasn't enough to overcome my reluctance to have another four/eight years of uproar and Clinton hate. I can't stand the idea of Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton/... JBush? anyone.
It is time for change. Change is needed. Even an old folk like me, who was never politically active before I found the big orange monster (DK), knows there is need for change.
Hillary has a role, I hope, preferable as majority leader of the Senate. But not at the top of the ticket.
Grandma Jo
So much so that she went out knocking on doors for him on the day of the PA primary despite the fact that she was still recovering from a broken foot.
So does my 78-year-old grandmother, who protested discriminatory housing practices when she was my age and was present for MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
So does my aunt, who used to do genetic counseling and considers reproductive rights her most important issue.
And so do I, a 24-year-old woman and ardent feminist. I would love to see a woman president but beyond her gender I don't find that much appealing about Hillary. I would certainly vote for her if she were the nominee, but I think Obama is really something special. He has gotten people my age who were previously apathetic about politics engaged in the process, and has built a grassroots army that has the potential to give ordinary people more influence in government than they have had in years, if not ever.
I'm 26, so I don't count.
But my mom is 62 and she supports Obama. My father is is 70 and from the Blue Mountains in North Carolina and he supports Obama. As does my aunt, his siter, who's still there. She's 66.
My sister is 37, so I guess she's just on the cusp of counting. In another 13 years maybe.
Oh, and my mother's two sisters, ages 56 and 52 support Obama. The 56 year-old, my aunt Susan, caucused for him in California.
The 52-year-old doesn't vote. But she's with us in spirit. She's in California anyway so I never really felt like I had to engage her on her apolitical ways.
My mom is 76 and she proudly supports Obama (Hillary's unapologetic pro-war stance turned her off).
That did it for a lot of people.
All the post-mortems miss that point. No AUMF? No Obama. I doubt he even runs, and if he does there's no daylight for him to break out.
My 55 year old parents, both registered republicans (Dad's a libertarian at heart) are supporting Obama. My 84 year old grandma voted for Clinton in Colorado; she didn't feel she was getting enough substance from Obama at the time, but she's coming around.
