Entry #616388, added on 11-03-08 @ 3:12 pm EST
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Tomorrow is it, the day of reckoning...
I'm on pins and needles. I don't think I've ever put so much of myself into an election as I have this one. I believe so strongly in my candidate of choice, Barack Obama, that I've given money, time, and have written ad nauseum, singing his praises. It's not that I think he's perfect or walks on water or even that he can fix every single thing that ails our current government's problems, but I do think he'll go a long way towards healing situations, relations, and people.
I am not a hardline democrat. I consider myself to be a member of neither party. I'm independent because there are ways in which I am conservative just as there are ways in which I could call myself liberal. More often I would place myself somewhere in the middle. To me, moderation in all things is the key. No matter what Fox News or Republican and sundry conservative commentators have been telling you, Barack Obama is not a radical liberal. He is almost as moderate as me. There is very little I disagree with him about...when it's not an election year. 
He did cave to what a candidate needs to do who is seeking a political office through the votes of the masses. He became dirtier than he wanted to be, he dived into the muck of politics and either had to come out swining at least a little or suffer the slings and arrows of those who listen to rhetoric instead of taking a hard look at issues and a potential office-holders stance on them. He had to become what he reviled, in some ways, to get where he is. I saw this line exploded onto the screen when I watched The Untouchables, one of my all time favorite movies:
I have foresworn myself. I have broken every law I have sworn to uphold, I have become what I beheld with contempt and I am content that I have done right.
It's a sad commentary on our world that it takes digging down into the muck and mire with the "big boys" to make it at all in politics, to capture the attention of the masses, but there it is. And still he and his campaign did not reach the depths of others. Thank goodness.
According to the polls, Obama is comfortably ahead. I do not and never have believed in the validity of polls, and so I and those who believe as strongly as I-or even more so in some cases-that Obama is the hope of a nation in need of something different and better, I again turn to the movie I love:
Never stop, never stop fighting till the fight is done.
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