Barack Obama Has My Vote!

Typically a republican voter, I have decided that I don't care if Ronald Reagan himself comes back from the grave and runs for president in 2008, I'm voting for Barack Obama. This man has done nothing but impress me. Of course I disagree with a few of his policies, but no more than our current president. I know that I'm not the only moderate or Republican that will be voting to the left in the upcoming election.
With President Bush's approval rating currently in the low 30's, it is apparent that the American people are not impressed. Don't get to discouraged! There is help on the way! A candidate that delivers speeches with brilliance. A candidate that seems to care about progression. A candidate that seems to put to best interests of the American people, first and foremost. Barack Obama is running for president in 2008!
According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.
Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996. Four years later, he made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives. After rededicating his efforts to the state senate and winning reelection unopposed in 2002, Obama ran for an open seat in the U.S. Senate two years later. Midway through the campaign, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, raising his national stature. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with a landslide 70% of the vote.
During that speech at the 2004 democratic national convention he delivered these words, "The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and yes, we got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
I was blown away. I have hoped ever since that he would run for president in 2008. After 2 years of denying that he would run, on January 16, 2007, Obama announced that he would be filing paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to establish a presidential exploratory committee and that he expected to make a decision on whether or not to run by February 10.
PRAISE THE LORD.

If you want to read more about this man (which i hope you will), you can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama. There you will find anything and everything you want to know about the man. Go check it out.

Chris