"In No Other Country On Earth"

There are many reasons I support Barack Obama for President. I like his politics. I like his policies. I like his reasoning. I like the way his candidacy makes me feel like I really can make a difference in America. It's a feeling I had when I first went to work on Capitol Hill, and a feeling that quickly dimished with the cynicism of Washington.

But, it's moments like this when I am revived, enthused even, to have the opportunity to vote for someone who can, and maybe more importantly will, say something that speaks to the optimist in me:

"I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton's Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth while he was overseas. I've gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world's poorest nations. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slaveowners - an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

It's a story that hasn't made me the most conventional candidate. But it is a story that has seared into my genetic makeup the idea that this nation is more than the sum of its parts - that out of many, we are truly one."


The whole speech is amazing. If you have time, check it out.

L.