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Dear Senator Obama,
As I am sure you very often hear, I am looking forward with all my heart to the day I will be able to say 'President' Obama. I have promoted and advertised you all I can, and of course, voted for you.
I am watching the campaign with more enthusiasm than I have ever watched politics in my life. I was first able to vote when Ronald Reagan was leaving office, and no one I voted for has ever won in my entire voting life. This time, I believe the person I voted for WILL win.
And tonight while watching the latest developments in the campaign, I heard of the crimes at Northern Illinois University, the tragic deaths of at least five people, and the wounding of at least 17 others. My immediate reaction was of horror. Then the state's name struck me again.
In the home state of our symbol of HOPE. And I look to you, writing not to ask you to reach out to the victims and their families because I know you will, but perhaps then simply writing to -tell- you that I know you will; and that I believe in you, and I believe in my country again, and for the first time since the wake of September 11th, I am proud of my country again.
I have no supernatural expectations of you, I know you are human. But I also know that you see all of us as humans, equal humans, with failings and hopes and needs to be met, and that you cannot fix us all or meet all our needs, but perhaps all we need right now is someone willing to try.
I will be so very proud to be able to say "I knew it" when I see so many helped by your message, your policy, your efforts, your standards, and even more people who will be inspired to do as you are doing.
The proper closure for this letter would be to say "Please reach out to the victims and families in your home state's university tragedy," as I close the letters to so many senators I have written on issues dear to my heart, but as I said before, I fully believe I have no need to ask that.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/university.shooting/index.html
As I am sure you very often hear, I am looking forward with all my heart to the day I will be able to say 'President' Obama. I have promoted and advertised you all I can, and of course, voted for you.
I am watching the campaign with more enthusiasm than I have ever watched politics in my life. I was first able to vote when Ronald Reagan was leaving office, and no one I voted for has ever won in my entire voting life. This time, I believe the person I voted for WILL win.
And tonight while watching the latest developments in the campaign, I heard of the crimes at Northern Illinois University, the tragic deaths of at least five people, and the wounding of at least 17 others. My immediate reaction was of horror. Then the state's name struck me again.
In the home state of our symbol of HOPE. And I look to you, writing not to ask you to reach out to the victims and their families because I know you will, but perhaps then simply writing to -tell- you that I know you will; and that I believe in you, and I believe in my country again, and for the first time since the wake of September 11th, I am proud of my country again.
I have no supernatural expectations of you, I know you are human. But I also know that you see all of us as humans, equal humans, with failings and hopes and needs to be met, and that you cannot fix us all or meet all our needs, but perhaps all we need right now is someone willing to try.
I will be so very proud to be able to say "I knew it" when I see so many helped by your message, your policy, your efforts, your standards, and even more people who will be inspired to do as you are doing.
The proper closure for this letter would be to say "Please reach out to the victims and families in your home state's university tragedy," as I close the letters to so many senators I have written on issues dear to my heart, but as I said before, I fully believe I have no need to ask that.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/university.shooting/index.html