We all have just DAYS left to MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

The next 10 days are when the Obama “ground game” counts most. Please visit www.barackobama.com to learn about a variety of easy ways that you can help. Invest whatever amount of time you can. Think how much more victory on November 4th will mean if you can say you were a part of this amazing grass roots effort! The rewards are so gratifying that you just feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to participate. Here are just a few of the memories I will keep with me forever:
**Today I talked to an 88 year old woman named Goldie. She was undecided, and as we talked she revealed that her big concern is the abortion issue. I talked to her about Barack Obama’s approach to reducing the need for abortion by addressing the economic difficulties that force women to make choices they might not otherwise make, and about the need to protect the right of women to choose, especially in circumstances of rape, incest and medical conditions that threaten their lives. Goldie is a smart, reasonable woman, and she is now an Obama voter!
** And then there was Peggy, another undecided voter whose big issue has always been gun ownership rights. Peggy lives on an income of $714 a month. In the course of talking to her she mentioned her grandson, who recently survived a fall that could have killed him. Our conversation was a chance for her to “think out loud” with a nonjudgmental stranger who was willing to listen, and she came to the conclusion that her grandson’s future is the most important thing to her, and that Obama offers the best hope of a better life for him.
** One day as I was working my way though my call list, I realized I was calling a 108 year old African American woman. Just imagine—she was born in 1900, and in 2008 she’ll cast her vote for an African American candidate. I almost couldn’t believe she was real, but then I Googled her and found an NPR article about her. She is real, and THIS IS REAL. I’m pinching myself!! I LOVE THIS COUNTRY!!!